He Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3 imposed a sentence of 12 years in prison for a 73-year-old man who was found guilty sexually abused three of his daughters in a house in the Buenos Aires district Constitution between 2018 and 2014. The judgment containing the order to extract the genetic profile of the convicted person for inclusion in the Genetic database According to Law No. 26,879, the response is to the seriousness of the events and the persistence of the psychological harm suffered by the victims, as evidenced by the expert reports presented in the trial.
In the final phase of the trial, deputy prosecutor Jorge Recalde emphasized this The abuse continued for years.occurred in the home environment and were relieved by living together.
Recalde emphasized that the defendant a Patterns of manipulation, threats and control over their daughterswhich had profound consequences, such as: Stress, depression, sleep disorders, suicidal thoughts, self-harm and eating disorders.
The prosecutor considered that the central evidence of the case was the testimony of the victims, particularly that of the eldest of the sisters She reported that the abuse stopped when she turned 15, after a heated argument with her father, which led her to reveal the facts to her mother..
The court consists of judges Gustavo Valle, Julio Baez and Gustavo Rofranoheld TR – whose full details are reserved to protect victims – responsible for the sexual abuse, aggravated by the context of supremacy, perpetrated against minors under 18, taking advantage of their pre-existing cohabitation. The judges found that the incidents were repeated at least twice by the eldest daughter, who reported the situation, and by the youngest of the daughters. They also found him guilty of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of another of his four daughters.
During the argument, the public prosecutor explained this in detail TR abused his daughter, aged 9 to 15, born in 2009, in their shared room in a family hotelby taking advantage of the moments when he returned from his job as a taxi driver. Also It was proven that he abused two other daughters, born in 2013 and 2015, between the ages of 6 and 8.. The incidents occurred during the girls’ weekend visits to their parents as they usually lived with their mother, who had seven children together, following the couple’s separation.
The mother’s statement was relevant to the prosecution because she reported that, despite the conflictual relationship and separation, she never suspected that such serious events could occur in her father’s environment. Also included was a civil file initiated in 2016 in which TR reported his ex-partner for leaving the house, but this resulted in him being banned from contact with his mother and all his daughters, which showed a history of family violence.
Judge Valle, whose vote was accompanied by Judges Rofrano and Báez, agreed with the prosecution in evaluating the victims’ stories. The judge noted that “The victim’s statement is detailed, coherent, stable, contextualized and consistent with known patterns of childhood intrafamilial abuse.”.
He added that the testimony was from the eldest of the sisters “It does not present any relevant contradictions and when the prosecution and defense delved into certain aspects, the young woman expanded her statement naturally, without exaggerating or adding elements inconsistent with the main accusation, condemning the facts without ambiguity.”.
The court also evaluated the statements of the other two girls in Cámara Gesell, who described the abuse they suffered and how they sometimes witnessed the attacks on their older sister.
Judge Valle noted that the teenager expressed her fear and her father’s threats to her sisters, which led her to protect them and remain silent until she was a teenager. According to the judge “This pattern of silence, fear and disclosure only in adolescence is consistent with what is typically observed clinically in victims of domestic violence.”.
Deputy Prosecutor Recalde emphasized that this is the teenager’s story “sincere, consistent, emotionally congruent and supported by subsequent psychological indicators”and that the defendant’s behavior destroyed the family structure. The court ruled out any hostility on the part of the complainant and concluded that the victims’ discursive coherence represents a classic indicator of the veracity of childhood sexual violence cases.
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