For the first time in the country, a soldier is convicted of sexual violence against a woman of lower rank

Mendoza Federal Judge 1, Walter Bento, sentenced a soldier to one year in prison and suspended him from charges for six months for mistreating a woman of lower rank.

The decision, the first in Argentina's history for gender-based violence in the military, fell on R.D.S., the superior military commander of the whistleblower, cries, abuse, harbadment and comments of a badual nature, still in a context of abuse of power, while serving in the Mendoza mountain infantry regiment.

The investigation was also conducted by Federal Prosecutor Fernando Alcaraz, who instructed the magistrate to seize the convicted of Article 249 bis of the Penal Code, in accordance with Articles 4 and 5 of Law 26,485 of the Comprehensive protection to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women in areas where they develop their interpersonal relationships, and Articles 1 and 2 of the Belem do Pará Convention.

The head of the unit specializing in violence against women (UFEM), Mariela Labozzetta, also participated in the meeting, asking that these episodes of harbadment and ill-treatment, developed in a military institution , be framed appropriately. general context of gender violence and structural inequality between men and womenaggravated by the hierarchical relationship of the aggressor.

Finally, the judge ordered that the convicted member perform a training course on gender issues to be determined by the Gender Division of Mendoza Province.