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07/30/2021 6:00 AM
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Updated 07/30/2021 6:00 AM
"
He stole our childhood
."
One of the three girls abused by her grandfather crudely summed up the drama that occurred when they were children but has not yet healed and left indelible consequences.
The defendant, now 80 years old, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in April.
Now, the Criminal Chamber of Trelew (Chubut) confirmed the sentence, which had been appealed.
The events occurred in Trelew between 2007 and 2014, when the victims were minors.
The man, who abused them under threats, must serve the sentence up to 100 years.
His lawyer has already
requested house arrest
due to his age and some health problems he suffers.
But the prosecution wants him to go to a detention center.
The Chamber was made up of judges Roberto Barrios, Alejandro Defranco and Raúl Luchelli, who ratified the sentence imposed on April 23, 2021.
During the hearing, and in response to the challenge filed by the defense, the attorney general Silvia Pereira concluded that the penalty was correctly set by the court.
Prosecutor Pereyra, key during the trial against the 80-year-old man.
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One of the girls, now older, said that "she only dared to report when her parents asked her to" and had to resort to "therapeutic treatments, open her mind and start talking."
In addition, as reported by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Chubut, "he said that he wanted the accused to pay for what he did, which caused him damage similar to that of losing a child,
a pain that does not heal, that no one heals
, where only She feels that she is not in danger if the accused is locked up, since that way he will not be able to attack her, her sisters, or another woman. "
The young woman said that the panic attacks that she suffers "will not heal, because after the physical attacks, the psychological ones followed, the manipulation, that the trauma to the point of preventing her from going out to the street due to the fears installed, since if she was abused in her family What can you expect from the outside? "
She also recalled "
the threats with which the aggressor manipulated her so that she would not speak about the abuses
, all of which turned her into a closed person, confined, who does not tell her problems, sometimes causing those panic attacks that, as she has explained , suffers ".
"He expressed that there are two years of trial that he has been suffering from the situation to the surface, but in reality there are ten suffering and keeping quiet about what happened. During that time he had to learn to live with what happened until he was able to speak about it, report it, although he does not recover despite the psychological treatment he continues to carry out, "said the MPF.
The victim pointed out that when her sister dared to reveal what happened, "
no one believed her, being even discredited and disqualified
, treated as a 'liar', a 'troll', amid manipulations by the abuser grandfather, who was in charge of separating them, breaking a relationship in which they were very close, to cause new damage to their childhood, something that they only understood when they grew up. "
What the prosecutor said
Prosecutor Pereyra said that "the evidence was very strong, tools that were decisive for the court to declare guilt unanimously by the court."
It also argued that “this man had been serving house arrest and that the Public Prosecutor's Office requested that, with a guilty verdict that remains effective, he be housed in a detention center.
The court also unanimously determined that he should be transferred and serve his sentence there ”.
The defense appealed and asked him to return home, which must be defined shortly.
"Although he has a basic heart disease that was proven in the debate, the doctors came to the conclusion that he may be in a prison court establishment because the treatment to which he is subjected is pharmacological," said the prosecutor.
EMJ
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