10 keys to an acquittal for sexual abuse and feminicide "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

The judges of Oral Criminal Court No. 1 acquitted Matías Farías and Juan Pablo Offidani of badual violence and the death of Lucía Pérez, as well as Alejandro Maciel for "aggravated concealment".

"The defendants will not be acquitted for questions about what they did, but because the evidence has clarified the non-existence of badual abuse with carnal access and liability." (imputation) for Lucia's death, "they said. the judges in the sentence.

The arguments of the judges to absolve Farias and Offidani:

(1) "Lucia had a certain degree of dependency on the use of drugs, but this circumstance did not prevent her from carrying on her activities, leading a normal life for a teenager her age and not a prostitution to obtain drugs. "

2) "Lucie had relationships with men that she barely knew, but it was by choice and when she wanted to."

3) "Lucia had a personality far from being submissive, a circumstance that was referred to us in principle by her brother Matias who said that she had a strong personality and by her mother who pointed out that – despite a good dialogue with Lucia – she told him everything that she wanted, so she knew nothing about her bad life. "

4) "Lucie, despite her age, she had the capacity to refuse the advances or proposals that would have submitted to those who would have bought him drugs".

5) "According to Lucia's badyzed discussions, it is clear that her experiences completely rule out the possibility that she was subjected without her will."

(6) "There is no evidence to suggest that Lucia was in a situation of subordination or vulnerability that prevented her from freely and voluntarily consenting to badual intercourse without having been physically or morally forced to surrender. at the house of Farías the same day, in which his death occurred ".

7) "Lucia was 16 years old and Farías 23, so it would be very obliged to speak of a situation of inequality or superiority, especially given the personality of Lucia who was not shown as a girl of her age and who also had relationships with men under 29 ".

8) In the discussions between Farías and Lucía "they showed no circumstance that extolled the manifesto
ultra intent to badually submit to anyone where there is an element that suggests that the Farias have harbaded, threatened or used a situation of superiority to succeed in subduing Lucia.

9) "It can not be deduced that Farías forced her to consume cocaine and even less obliged her to consume it.
scrambling her consent and badually abusing her. "

10) "The medical board stated that the child had suffered no injuries consistent with badual abuse, that the body had not been washed and that it was highly likely that the death was due to intoxication resulting from drug use. "