Big Brother: Marecelo Corazza denied the charge for “corruption of minors”

Marcelo Corazzathe winner of the first edition of the reality Big Brother made in 2001, current producer of the same program and who was arrested yesterday accused of being part of an organization dedicated to the sexual exploitation and corruption of minors, today denied the accusation but did not want to answer questions before the judge and the prosecutor in the case, they reported judicial sources.

Corazza was the first of the four defendants to be investigated this morning by the Criminal and Correctional Judge 48, Javier Sánchez Sarmiento, and the prosecutor Patricio Lugones, in the courts at 1170 Lavalle Street, after which he will remain in custody accused of the crimes of “illicit association, human trafficking and corruption of minors”.

The same source reported that the next defendant to be investigated this noon will be Andres Fernando Charpenetwhile the other two, the missionary Francisco Rolando Angelotti -indicated leader of the organization-, and Raul Ignacio MermetThey will be investigated only tomorrow.

Already this morning, after 7.20, when they took him off the transfer truck and before being admitted handcuffed to the building on Lavalle street, Corazza managed to tell the press that he was “innocent”.

The four arrests were made yesterday by members of the Human Trafficking Division of the City Police Investigations Superintendency after six raids carried out in the missionary city of Oberá and in the Buenos Aires towns of General Pacheco, Tigre and General Rodríguez. .

The arrest of the former participant of Big Brother and current producer of Telefe, took place after a raid carried out at his home, located on Montes de Oca street at 300 of the Tigre district, and from there he was transferred to a Buenos Aires Alcaidía where he spent the night until this morning he was taken to court.

According to the accusation of judge Sánchez Sarmiento and prosecutor Lugones, the four defendants are accused of “having formed an organization aimed at recruiting vulnerable minors and adults, in order to subject them to the practice of sexual relations and sexual exploitation without their consent, whether for the exchange of money or for personal satisfaction or that of third parties”.

According to the investigation, this occurred with at least 11 victims in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires and Misiones from at least 1999 to date.

In this regard, the victims who testified in the file detailed that the abuses that occurred in private cars, homes and transitory shelters and some of the places mentioned are Caballito, Parque Centenario, Plaza Miserere, Costanera Sur, Castelar and General Rodríguez,

The suspicion of the investigators is that the defendant Angelotti recruited young people and children from the province of Misiones, where he is from, to take them to live with him at the home of a relative in General Rodríguez.

The investigation began on October 24 of last year, after a witness with a confidential identity reported that he had been sexually abused when he was between 11 and 13 years old, between 1999 and 2002, by one of the now detainees, whom he could only individualized by his first name and then made him have sexual relations with other defendants.

In the case, Corazza is mentioned in only one event that occurred in 2001, when according to the victim, the recent winner of Big Brother took him in his private car to the Costanera Sur and there was a situation of alleged abuse.

Currently, Corazza was working as a producer in the 2022 edition of Big Brother, which continues to be broadcast on the Telefé channel and will end next Monday.

In turn, the winner of GH 2001 participated as a panelist every Friday night of the program “Big Brother: Night of the Exes”where he debated with other ex-participants about the events that took place during the current season of the reality show.