"Las Criadas" protested in court against the shameful failure of Lucía Pérez

The decision of an oral court of Mar del Plata who acquitted the accused for the death of Lucía Pérez This provoked outrage from groups belonging to the women's movement. The text blame to the victim and draw conclusions from weak elements. Dressed in a red tunic and a white toque, the "maids" protested outside the courthouse. "We do not keep quiet and we will not support this injustice anymore," they questioned.

The judges two of the defendants were sentenced to 8 years in prison and a fine of 135,000 pesos for the crime of "narcotics possession and marketing, aggravated by its sale to a minor and under the jurisdiction of a school" and acquitted the third, Alejandro Maciel, at the request of the If the accusation of "aggravated concealment" had not been proven, after listening to the verdict, Guillermo Pérez, Lucia's father, emphasized the prosecutor, María Isabel Sánchez poor performance in the instruction.

Of the deficiencies found at the initial stage of the investigation, Sánchez had stated that Lucia he had been impaled which has never really happened. During the hearings, it was presumed that the drug used as evidence he was planted in the car of the main accused, Matías Farías. Moreover, there was a strong questioning of the forensic expert and his mistakes were reported by his colleagues in the room.

To prove that Farias had no intention of mistreating her, they cite that on their way home, they stopped to buy chocolate milk.

But the arguments used by the judges Facundo Gómez Urso, Aldo Carnevale and Pablo Viñas acquit the defendants are Bragging and blaming the teenager and they show ignorance of the nature and circumstances of the crime of badual abuse.

The judges ruled that Lucia had Farias with her asymmetrical relationship, of submission, because, they say, he had a strong character and She decided who she slept with. "She was 16 years old and he was 23 years old, so it would be very difficult to talk about a situation of inequality or superiority, especially if we consider Lucia 's personality that does not stand up to her. is not shown as a girl of her age and who also preferred to have relationships with men up to 29 years old ".

Magistrates said that "she had a lot of personality and that she was a good student" and – they said because of her discussions – that she was not dependent on narcotic because his parents they did not notice that he was addicted, while they had information that his other son, Lucia's brother, consumed. That she admitted in a conversation with a friend that "everyone wanted her …" but that she knew put the brake, led the court to conclude that in this case too I was able to do it and instead wanted to maintain relationships.

That he did not have any marks on his body that will reveal a resistance and yes, evidence of the existence of badl and bad penetration prompted the judges to badume that there was consent. Dilators of the bad area are attributed to the practice of "strong bad", which, according to a friend, Lucia would have liked. They also take the opportunity to report that she has had bad with older men that she "to whom I hardly knew"

As proof that Farías, 23 years old, had no intention of mistreating her, they quote that, on the way back, they stopped at buy chocolate milk, crackers and cigarettes, that the defendant remained in the first aid room where Lucia died and that he was "anxious". As a cause of death, they badume that there was a overdose for cocaine use.

Maids in the courts

While preparing a new national judgment of women repudiating the judgment – the first was held immediately after the death of the girl from Mar del Plata – a group belonging to the collective Las Criadas, inspired by The tale of the maid, the novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, entered the courthouse to read a proclamation before the statue of justice.

Dressed in black, the girls entered Talcahuano street around 13:30 and covered themselves with the red tunic and the white hatthey lined up in the central hall and leaned against the imposing sculpture.

One of the agents was heard saying by walkie-talkie "They are all women, sir".

One of the maids was responsible for expressing the spirit of the protest, for the first time at the Palace of Justice: Previous actions were conducted in front of Congress during the treatment of the frustrated law of legal and free abortion.

"We are here to tell you that their way of doing justice it gives us disgust and anger. We are here to shout at you, we do not forget, we do not forgive. We are here to tell you that we are tired of waiting more than 12 hours for a complaint to be filed at the Domestic Violence Bureau which depends on nothing less than the Supreme Court. We are here to tell you that we are fed up with the fact that if we can finally support this expectation, a judge without even looking at our face dictates some measures that nobody can comply with because nothing works. An anti-panic program or button does not work, nor does any restraining order that we have to go to the police station closest to the home of our abuser. And then when they kill us, They have the nerve to comment on the behavior of our mbadacred pibas They have badembled this useless apparatus because they are accomplices of the violence. Dictate measures and sentences without considering that we are not silent and do not support this injustice. We are not your servants, the judges, the judges. What you do is not justice. Call it what you want, but it has another name: it's called patriarchy and it's going to fall.

Justice for Lucia! "

When they left, the women walked a few meters from the ground floor of the building, followed closely by a group of alarmed federal police of both bades. One of the agents was heard saying talkie Walkie "They are all the women, sir. "The maids were leaving, as clues, on the floor, photographs of Lucia's smiling face.