The former senator of the National Party will remain in prison after being charged with multiple crimes of sexual abuse of minors.
The Justice This Monday, he decided to extend preventive detention to former senator of the National Party (PN), Gustavo Penadésafter it was charged with 22 crimes of sexual abuse against minorsfor which he has been in prison for almost 180 days.
The victims’ defense hoped that the Judge Marcela Vargas apply these new precautionary measures and the extension of preventive detention against the former legislator, as well as against the History teacher Sebastián Muavezínpointed out as a link between the victims, since they understand that “there is an ongoing investigation” into other collaborators of Penadés.
In dialogue with Telemundo, Juan Raúl Williman, lawyer for several victims, pointed out that because of this, they were expecting “the measures to be extended.” “There is an ongoing investigation, there are six abbreviated processes of collaborators where it was in some way proven that they went out to look for victims to avoid their testimony,” said the lawyer.
“We have pending advance statements”
“We have pending advance statements, we believe that there are sufficient elements to order the extension of the precautionary measure for the time it takes to conclude the investigation,” he insisted. The victims’ defense attorney explained that from the beginning the same number of victims was handled, but that there could be new advance statements that were pending at the time.
On the other hand, he highlighted that the abbreviated trials revealed the existence of a plot created by Penadés himself to access the identity of the complainants. “There are six people who, in some way, recognize their responsibility and admit to having collaborated with this plan that was trying to find the victims and prevent their testimony,” the lawyer explained.
According to Williman, the appearance of these six people in the case “puts the accused themselves in a more compromising situation,” referring to Penadés and Carlos Tarocco, director of exComcar and collaborator in the plot.
Source: Ambito
