Ernesto Azarkevich
11/19/2020 12:37 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/19/2020 12:37 PM
A lawyer from Corrientes who had beaten his ex-partner three days after she ended the relationship, was again released despite the fact that when he obtained that benefit he repeatedly violated the perimeter imposed by Justice.
The controversial resolution was taken by the Oral Criminal Court of the city of Goya and benefited Cristian Andrés Casco (36), who is prosecuted for "
double qualified serious injuries, damage and coercion
", for which he could be sentenced to a sentence of up to fifteen years in prison.
Judges Julio Duarte and Joaquín Romero voted in favor of this measure, with the dissent of Jorge Carbone.
In addition, the victim was notified of the order to cease the preventive detention of Casco when the resolution had already been taken.
The lawyers Gisela Dezorzi (41) and Cristian Andrés Casco (36), from Goya, Corrientes.
"She told me that she had been summoned to the Court and when we appeared, they notified us of the release of this man," said the plaintiff attorney Pablo Fleitas.
"We are going to appeal in Cassation because
here the right of the victim was violated and it is a danger for Gisela that this man is free
."
Casco is prosecuted because on March 1 of last year he gave a fierce beating to his partner, the lawyer Gisela Dezorzi (41), who had communicated his decision to terminate the relationship.
An unusual argument
The violent man escaped and was arrested a week later.
Nine months later, the Mercedes Criminal Appeals Chamber granted him freedom and one of the controversial arguments he used was that Casco "
used his fist and struck in places where he could not cause death
."
Dezorzi had suffered head injuries and ended up with
two broken ribs
from the beating.
Casco was released and entered the Program for Dual Device Systems for Supervision, Monitoring and Tracking of Sexual Offenders and Victims of Gender Violence in Corrientes.
In other words, he had
an electronic ankle brace
and the victim had another device that monitored their movements to prevent them from being within a radius of less than 200 meters.
The lawyers Gisela Dezorzi (41) and Cristian Andrés Casco (36), from Goya, Corrientes.
The lawyer Fleitas said that “it was the people of the Program who asked to remove Casco because they ignored the recommendations.
Although he did not go near Gisela's house, every time she went out, he did too and tried to generate a meeting as if it were by chance ”, he explained.
That is why on December 31, Casco was arrested again after his release was revoked.
Duarte and Romero, who gave Casco a second chance, imposed the conduct of psychological treatment as rules of conduct, as recommended by the forensic psychologist in her report, to go to the police station closest to his home every Monday - it was set in the place "San Antonio", and reiterated the prohibition to interact or approach within two hundred meters of the victim or his home.
The lawyers Gisela Dezorzi (41) and Cristian Andrés Casco (36), from Goya, Corrientes.
The prosecutor Francisco Arrue had spoken out against freedom.
He argued that the penalty for the crimes charged to the lawyer ranges from 3 to 15 years in prison and that the time he has been detained "does not exceed two thirds of the penalty that could be imposed" on him.
Arrue recalled that the man had
already violated the regulations
imposed on him in the previous release from prison and that "in cases like these of gender violence it is prudent and necessary to protect the victims."
The only judge who voted against Casco's freedom was Jorge Antonio Carbone.
In his ruling, he argued that the case “should not only be analyzed in light of international human rights standards that protect the accused, but must be harmoniously combined with the rights that protect vulnerable people such as women, meriting a more exhaustive treatment ”.
“
I cannot find a basis to grant him a second chance
, through the granting of the benefit of the cessation of prison with the same safeguard that he has already breached (placement of an electronic mobility control device), even more so when his own writing implies his denial by the Committed offense,
placing all the blame on the victim
, irrogating him without foundation or proof that proves his statements, that she carried out the improper acts to harm him ”, said Carbone.
The judge indicated that a possible release of Casco would put the victim "in a state of vulnerability, contrary to all national and international regulations that protect women."
In addition, he asked the Prosecutor's Office that in future cases, “before issuing its opinion, not only inform the victim of the request for her aggressor's release, but also listen to her, assist her and that her opinion be taken into account at the time to arrive at a decision that affects it ”.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
EMJ
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