02/17/2020 - 17:44
- Clarín.com
- Society
V., a 12-year-old girl, insisted on showing Leandro Martínez (43), her father's cousin's husband, whom she called her uncle , the newly painted room she shared with her little brother. So he could get proof that the man was abusing her: his attempt to get close to the baby and handle her was recorded in the security cameras of the house. The parents are dismayed that the defendant is a fugitive.
Juan Pablo Gallego, family lawyer, told Clarín that he filed the arrest warrant for the defendant on January 10, 2020, at which point he is a fugitive. The case is being brought by the UFIyJ (Investigation and Trial Fiscal Unit) No. 11 of Morón and the prosecutor in charge is Pablo Martín Masferrer.
According to judicial sources, the case is in Chamber 1 of the Chamber of Guarantees because the defense, represented by lawyer Luis Rappazzo, filed a habeas corpus in favor of the defendant who was rejected last Friday. They also confirmed that the recording is in the hands of Justice and is part of the evidence.
In Gallego's opinion, habeas corpus presented by Martínez's defense is "almost abstract." That is, the defendant would have no arguments to refute the illegality of the detention that was requested by the Prosecutor.
Clarín tried to communicate repeatedly with Rappazzo, but received no response on the cause.
Domestic abuse: from disbelief to the request for justice
The first sign was confusing: V. was excited to stay at his uncles' house to share time with his cousins. She and her uncle had a close and trustworthy relationship, until one night V. she sent audios to her friend: “Hello, you don't know what happened to me, my uncle touched my tail and sucks . We were all four in bed and woke up with him touching me. ”
According to TN , Pablo and Daniela, V.'s parents, found out because the friend's mother went to her house to show them the voice messages while V. was still at her uncles' house. Amid the shock, the couple went to Martinez's mother-in-law and she asked them not to tell any of this to her daughter, who was pregnant at the time.
Still confused, they immediately looked for the girl in the country where the defendant lived. When they talked to V. he told what happened, he gave more details and his parents decided to move away from that side of the family.
The meetings were spaced until the girl asked permission to go to a baseball player with Martinez, her parents approved the ride but the girl would not spend the night at her uncles' house. In spite of the precautions V. he affirmed that his uncle had touched his leg with lasciviousness again while they were in the place and released: "I never want to go to Leandro and the aunt".
In an ESI (Comprehensive Sex Education) class V. he recognized those actions to which he had been subjected and said to his 35 classmates: "It happens to me, my uncle abused me." That was the second alarm.
The parents now accepted in dialogue with TN that they had the prejudice that in families like theirs "those things did not happen." Pablo maintains that Martínez is an obsessive and well educated man. "We could not believe that he was guilty of something like that when we saw him with his children, how he took care of them. Precisely as V. peed on him since he was 6 years old and he was so careful I thought maybe he had touched her in bed to see if it wasn't wet, "he detailed. Now they suspect that the abuse began at that age.
The "tour" with which the baby betrayed her aggressor
"There was a family party at my grandparents' side here," Pablo evokes TN . "At one point, when I arrived from work, V. began to insist that I wanted to show Leandro several improvements we had made at home. He missed me a lot, and I ignored her for a while. But suddenly, when I saw that he was taking the Very willing key, I accompanied her. "
V. organized a tour of the house. First, they went to the bottom, where a barbecue was built. Then he took Leandro to his room. Each time his father separated from the boys and there was no other adult, Martinez took the opportunity to handle it. The chamber of V.'s room and his little brother caught the abuse and the video became an unequivocal test for justice.
Leaving the bedroom, Leandro noticed the monitor. And the girl said: "Did you see that my parents put security cameras?" The man looked at the camera and when leaving, pressed the neck of the baby, as a warning. "He squeezed my neck and it hurt a lot," she said.
V. told him what was happening to his babysitter, because he was afraid to tell his dad. "I saw that the videos coincided exactly with what my daughter told us we despair," Pablo said.
The courage of V. promoted a cause in which a prohibition of approach was requested and Martinez was formally charged with severely outrageous sexual abuse . Daniela, V.'s mother admitted to TN fear of her cousin since Leandro could be very violent and retaliate against his wife.
The case was made public because the family, desperate, found that Martinez is a fugitive. When the police went to the closed neighborhood where they live, he discovered that there was no one at home. In the administration they only managed to tell them that they notified that they would go on vacation to Mar del Plata. The back door of the house was open.
"I want him to be a prisoner. My daughter needs me to be a prisoner. It is the least I can do to repair everything that happened to her," Daniela told TN , while leafing through the book "I say very strong," which the psychologist used to make her Daughter will identify facts and feelings.
According to the latest available statistics on child sexual abuse carried out in 2016, in Argentina 47 percent of the victims are between 6 and 12 years old, in 75 percent of the cases the aggressors are family members and 89 percent they are men.