The musician Miguel del Popolo was convicted by crime of sexual abuse and Justice ordered his immediate arrest.
Rock band vocalist “The Wave That Wanted to Be Bye” was found guilty in relation to three complainantsone of the cases classified as repeated.
“The Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 25 Miguel del Pópolo was sentenced to 27 years in prison for having sexually abused three women. Furthermore, his immediate arrest was ordered, in accordance with what Attorney General Guillermo Pérez de la Fuente had requested in his argument. The fundamentals will be known on November 27,” details the announcement from the Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor’s Office.
It was also ordered that, once the sentence becomes final, the man’s genetic profile be obtained and extracted with the aim of it being sent to the Genetic Data Bank.
In turn, Del Pópolo was acquitted of the crime of minor injuries, “since the prosecutor had considered that this sequence was prescribed.”
The serious accusations against Del Pópolo
At the accusation stage, the prosecutor stated that the vocalist “took pleasure in having a sexual relationship causing pain and suffering.”
“It was relevant to analyze the evidence of the three cases in an integrated manner since they refer to similar behaviors perpetrated by the same man towards three different women,” the letter highlights.
Pérez also recalled a phrase from one of the musician’s songs: “I want to catch you asleep and make you flash that I am God” and added: “The sexual act for Del Pópolo does not need the consent of the other person, only his will matters. It is when he wants, wherever and however you want regardless of compliance.”
During the trial, various messages that the musician sent to the complainants after the events were shown, where he apologized but claimed not to remember what had happened: “He is a total liar, in each of the abuses he claims that he was drunk and that it was the first time it had happened to him“He knows well what he did to the three of them and he does remember what happened.”
The complaint representing two of the complainants had requested 31 years in prison, while the defense, after questioning the stories given by the young women and the dissemination of the videos where they recounted what happened, demanded their acquittal for the benefit of the doubt.
However, this Tuesday the court sentenced him to 27 years in prison and requested his immediate arrest.
Source: Ambito
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