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07/08/2021 9:10
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/08/2021 9:10 AM
A man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl whom he had illegally brought from Bolivia with the promise of "making her have
a better life
" since her family was in a bad economic situation.
In addition, he forced her to cook, clean her house and take care of the couple's children.
This is Fermín Torrico Claros, 36, of Bolivian nationality, who committed the abuses on a property in the Moure neighborhood, in Comodoro Rivadavia (Chubut).
Torrico did not live alone there: there was also his wife.
The crime was committed during the absence of the woman, according to what the Justice was able to verify.
The Federal Oral Court Prosecutor Teodoro Nürnberg explained that "the man obtained the authorization of the mother of the girl", because he was a relative of his wife, although in any case he
entered the country illegally in 2011.
In the trial it was found that Torrico committed "aggravated sexual abuse" and that there was sufficient evidence that it was "with carnal access."
"When the victim is a person who is the object of guardianship, that is, he was in charge of another person, the law contemplates an aggravating factor due to the trust that is distorted by the actions of the person," it was indicated.
It was also found that the mother of the girl had made an agreement with the now condemned man to bring her to Argentina supposedly
to give her “education
and help with some housework, but when she arrived in our country that was totally distorted by the accused, with the consequences that we know ”.
Torrico had been sentenced in the first instance to 11 years in prison for human trafficking "but now this second trial for sexual abuse was made and he received a total of 16 years in prison when the two sentences were unified," the court indicated.
It has not yet been revealed how Torrico made the girl enter the country illegally, although it is estimated that it was through some of the northern borders of the country where there are no strict controls.
The girl's mother had seven children, lived in the countryside and was in a bad economic situation, for which she had allowed her to migrate to Argentina.
The victim told a neighbor about her ordeal, which allowed them to report him to the courts and achieve his conviction.
Torrico's couple had already been sentenced to 10 years in the first human trafficking trial.
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