The decision of Lucía Pérez, very hard against the prosecutor: "She moved a country" with "a lie" – 11/27/2018

The episode of badist violence that shocked the country, the death of Lucía Pérez (16 years old), had a not less shocking judicial resolution: as expected Clarin there is almost a month, the case was without guilt since all the defendants had been acquitted of the crime of badual abuse followed by the death penalty, because it had not been proved during the oral debate. Instead, the judge found them guilty of selling drugs.

"They did not rape her, they did not kill her, they did not give her anything. And the death of my daughter what, is it a gift?", Protested Marta Montero, the mother of the teenager, as soon as she finished reading the decision of the Oral Criminal Court 1 of Mar del Plata." They are convicted only for the drug and not for the murder of Lucia, "he told the newspaper, which is a fact that motivated the first national women's strike.

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Holding a rosary and a white rose between her hands, the woman remained silent in the room with her husband, Guillermo Pérez, who, as throughout the trial, carried a plastic picture of her daughter hanging on her chest. "It's a pity, a heckling"protested the man.

Outside, feminist groups and social organizations had designed their banners and flags to support the Pérez family. From the 7th floor of the courts, you can hear their songs and permanent drums. The court decision generated anger and disappointment.

Before getting into the living room, Lucia's mother had asked them not to hurt herself from there. A strong cordon of police had shielded the building, but there were no incidents.

Facundo Gómez Urso, Aldo Carnevale and Pablo Viñas Jailed Matías Farías (25) and Juan Pablo Offidani (43) for "Possession of narcotics for the purpose of aggravated marketing, as this is harmful to minors and near an educational institution"

They sentenced each to eight years in prison and fined 135,000 pesos.. The third accused, Alejandro Maciel (61), accused of concealment, was acquitted.

It was drugs that the teenager and Farías met. One day before her death on October 7, 2016, Lucia had bought her a marijuana cigarette. The next morning, with Offidani in his truck, they took her home, I discovered that they had agreed to chat. A few hours later, the girl was dead.

In the same van, the two men took her away faded and thought that, already lifeless, in a room in the Alfar neighborhood. Offidani is gone. Farias stayed at home, she offered to pick up Lucia 's belongings left at her home and, according to the decision, showed a distant attitude towards the one who had raped and murdered.

Soon, Offidani and Farías were arrested at the request of the prosecutor María Isabel Sánchez, in charge of the initial file. During this operation, they found drugs, cocaine and fractional marijuana for sale. A few hours later, the prosecutor surprised by convening a press conference and revealing horrible details. He stated that Lucia had been drugged and then raped with such violence that she had died. He stated that during his career, he had not seen anything like it and that the girl had been impaled.

None of this could be proven in the debate. Half a dozen experts defended their reports during the trial and no one has concluded that there has been badual abuse. For the judges, Sanchez's statements sparked "a series of painful reactions, essentially for the minor's parents who must to this day bear this horrible story of the prosecutor's imagination".

"It was like a snowball that involved not only those directly involved (Lucia's family and friends and even the accused), but also human rights groups, public and private institutions and even people outside the process. that, relying on the words of the prosecutor of the case, took sides on a subject whose information was false", Supports resolution.

The court decided to send a copy of the judgment to the Attorney General of Buenos Aires in order to badess the possible crime ".breach of the obligations of a public official"In the name of Sánchez."He has moved to a country since the pain and horror of a lie"The court said.

"This is dedicated to the kiosk below (on the ground floor of the courts) the prosecutor Sanchez," ironically Perez. "An attorney ruins the life of a person, an entire family. We ruined our lives. And he ruined justice for Lucia. This attorney must pay with all his property all that he has done. It can not be left like this. It's a mockery"

The family's defense Perez announced that she would appeal. "When you do not like a decision, you have to appeal," said attorney Gustavo Marceillac, who had asked the accused in perpetuity. "We will continue to fight," said Lucia's parents.

In baderting their acquittal for Pérez and Offidani, the judges emphasized that "A clear sentence should also indicate that none of the six experts, before the cause of death "most likely" that they have requested, namely intoxication by an overdose of narcotics, n? has presented or has not formulated any other cause of death"

"In other words -they said- the most likely cause of death had no other less probable or moderately probable cause, only that. It's a tragic end, however, because a smart, generous and supportive teenager has died and, according to his parents and his brother, strongly related to his family environment. An unfortunate ending that was not the product of badual abuse or impalement"