Carlos Guajardo
01/08/2021 12:58
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/08/2021 13:00
"I am not your dad, I am your lover."
One of the many phrases that an Air Force NCO based in Río Gallegos used to abuse and rape his stepdaughter for 12 years, from 9 to 21 years old.
Two years later, the girl learned that the military man was not her biological father as she thought.
He had recognized her when he formed a couple with his mother, with whom he had three other children.
The noncommissioned officer, who is imprisoned with an extensive accusation, abused the girl even within the premises of the Armed Forces.
when he was on duty.
There he had a bedroom.
But he also did it in his car and at home.
The event, which shocked the capital of Santa Cruz, was denounced in 2017 when the young woman was 26 years old.
Three years earlier, she had learned from another sister that the NCO was not actually her biological father.
That led her to understand, in part, his behavior.
“She currently suffers from phobias, is blocked and even has trouble expressing herself.
In 28 years of career I have seen horrible things but none like that ”,
Jovita Vivar
told
Clarín
,
the victim's attorney.
The noncommissioned officer was arrested, prosecuted and seized accused of "seriously outrageous sexual abuse, in a real contest with repeated carnal access and aggravated by the pre-existing relationship and coexistence." It provides for a maximum sentence of 20 years. "But there are other aggravating circumstances, such as his condition military and the consequences that it left on the victim, which can lead to a perpetual life, "added the lawyer.
In addition, in the scenario of gender violence, in addition to the rapes, the "girl was constantly beaten and received threats such as 'if you tell something, first I will kill you and then I will kill myself.' This created in the girl a situation of tremendous Anguish and impotence. She was also totally defenseless since both her mother and her siblings did not know what was happening. He abused her constantly. She
lived a real ordeal for several years.
Not only did she lose her childhood but also her will to live, "she explained. Live.
The defendant, with the Air Force uniform, which according to the lawyer for now is silent / La Opinion Austral
The lawyer stated that the young woman "cannot speak well because she is undergoing medical treatment and suffers serious consequences from the abuses, rapes, beatings and threats that this subject inflicted on her during most of her life."
Vivar said that "these actions began in the Air Force house that the family occupied near the hospital and then continued in a neighborhood of the city to which they moved; but the most striking thing is that it is proven that many of the attacks that suffered were in the force's premises where the subject worked in the human resources area when he took the girl to his guards. "
The resolution regarding the preventive detention, the prosecution and the seizure was issued by the criminal judge Marcela Quintana.
The 52-year-old man was about to retire from the Air Force after nearly 30 years of service, during which time he committed the reported abuses.
“At the moment the Air Force is silent.
We do not know if despite being detained they discharged him because there is nothing official.
Justice acted quickly, "he stressed.
And he expressed that “not only the girl, but also the brothers and the mother will have to start a recovery period.
It was very hard what came to light.
They had an elephant inside a bazaar but they didn't see it ”, he graphed.
And he finished: “Besides all this, the man was very jealous of the girl.
And the threat telling her that if she told something, 'we are all going to separate and it will be worse for you.'
The Air Force noncommissioned officer was
seized at 800 thousand pesos.
Chubut. Correspondent.
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 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
