02/21/2020 - 16:14
- Clarín.com
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The main accused of the femicide of Anahí Benítez , the 16-year-old teenager found murdered in the Santa Catalina reserve of the Buenos Aires town of Llavallol in 2017 , will not continue to be tried in the courts of Lomas de Zamora: a medical board determined that he is not in conditions to face the process for their psychiatric disorders.
The Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 7 of Lomas de Zamora made that decision this Friday regarding the accused Marcelo Sergio Villalba (42), who on Tuesday had begun to be prosecuted with Marcos Esteban Bazán (36) for the crime of girl.
On the second day of the trial, a medical board had determined that Villalba (42) was not in a position to face the process because of his psychiatric pathologies. It only remained for the judges to define their situation.
Judges Roberto Conti, Elisa López Moyano and Roberto Lugones proposed a modification in the list of witnesses and called on Thursday to testify four official and party experts who made the various psychiatric and psychological reports.
The experts agreed that Villalba suffers from "a psychotic structure" in a given picture such as "paranoid schizophrenia", so he cannot face an oral trial, since he is not fit to defend himself actively.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the trial, Hugo Daniel Carrión, and the lawyer Guillermo Bernard Krizan, representative of Anahí's mother, rejected the statement of the official defender of Villalba, since they considered that he was in a position to participate in the trial because he understood " the criminality of the facts. "
How the trial continues
The judges, then, suspended the debate regarding this man and will continue to judge Bazan, after which this afternoon were other witnesses, the sources said,
Bazan came to the debate with two alternative qualifications and his defense maintains that he has been "unjustly" detained for more than two years.
At the beginning of the oral debate, both Villalba and Bazán had refused to testify in court and Anahí's mother was introduced as the first witness.
Silvia Pérez Vilor told what her daughter was like, with whom she related and gave details of the teenager's search operation, of which she actively participated with the police.
Then, a neighbor of Bazán declared , who said that one night before the discovery of Anahí's body he saw that in the house of the defendant there was a "campfire" that caught his attention and that for several hours several dogs barked in the sector in the which was then found the body of the teenager.
Bazán went to trial on charges of co-author of "illegal deprivation of aggravated liberty, homicide aggravated by crime, criminal causes and by mediating gender violence" and, alternatively, as a necessary participant of "sexual abuse aggravated by carnal access".
Meanwhile, Villalba was accused of "robbery, sexual abuse aggravated by carnal access" as an author, and "illegal deprivation of aggravated liberty and homicide aggravated by alevosía, criminis causa and by mediating gender violence" as co-author .
With that qualification, if found guilty, Bazán could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Anahi femicide
The incident occurred on July 29, 2017 , when the teenager left her home in Parque Barón, in Lomas de Zamora, to walk a few blocks to the Eva Perón Municipal Park.
His family reported the disappearance that same day and on August 4 Anahí's body was found naked, with sharp injuries and blows to the head, buried in the Santa Catalina Nature Reserve.
The autopsy determined that the girl had died of suffocation by suffocation and that she had been the victim of a sexual attack.
Source: Télam