This Wednesday, the prosecutor Alicia Ghione received a new complaint against senator Gustavo Penadesbeing the second of a sexual nature that is added counting the child sexual exploitation carried out by the militant Romina Celeste Papasso.
The victim, whose name is not yet known, appeared at the Legal Office of the University of the Republic (Udelar) to tell the facts. From there, after technicians have analyzed whether the case represented a criminal act and if the person had the resources to hire a defense, the evolution of the office determined that it did represent a possible crime.
With this, and with the victim’s request to testify before Alicia Ghione’s prosecutor’s office, the statement was completed and the Udelar office is in charge of advising and assisting her. There is still no information on the victim, or when the event occurred, but it would seem that the victim would have experienced this situation in her adolescence.
The first complaint
Two weeks ago, the militant Romina Celeste Papasso recounted for the first time that, when she was 13 years old and still identified as a man, a leader of the National Party lifted her up batelle park and abused her in a motel. After various speculations on social networks, he finally identified the attacker as Gustavo Penadés.
According to Romina Celeste, the senator had two encounters with her as a teenager and visited Battle Park. In fact, the leader of the national partyHe was the first to ever stop her on the street. With clear and express intentions of a sexual encounter, Penadés took her to a motel, without asking for her identity card to verify her age but asking her to hide when entering the establishment. For Celeste, this is evidence that man I knew he was with a minor.
Likewise, the militant confirmed that Penadés was a Regular customer of the minors in Parque Batlle and that several members of the National Party called her to express their support. In addition, she announced that she expected to be denied and even sued by the senator.
There could be more victims
This week, Romina Celeste Papassopresented a statement of almost three hours before the prosecutor for Sexual Offenses, Alicia Ghione. At a press conference, the militant slipped that they exist “many more victims“of what is thought, and”many do not want to say“.
Regarding this, his lawyer Soledad Suárez, from the Legal Office of the Udelar Law School, stated that the Legal Office has received “queries” from alleged victims, but that it has not been possible to advance on the matter. For Papasso, this is a sign that “more victims have come and will come.”
Source: Ambito
