A court in Entre Ríos sentenced the Peronist mayor of the Entre Ríos town of Gilbert to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing three municipal employees and
will benefit from house arrest.
The
convicted person is Ángel Fabián Constantino,
who came to trial with house arrest and paid leave 10 months after the first complaint and after Governor Gustavo Bordet sent a request for intervention to the Legislature.
Constantino was convicted of three acts of "sexual abuse with carnal access in the context of labor and gender violence."
He was also accused in another case for minor injuries after beating a municipal worker, and other cases of abuse and violence were known.
Despite his situation, he arrived at the hearings without escorts and in the car of one of his lawyers from Gilbert, a town of no more than 1,500 inhabitants located about 75 kilometers from Gualeguaychú, in the southeast of Entre Ríos.
Constantino, the mayor of Gilbert, was found guilty of three acts of sexual abuse.
"It is a small town, with few sources of work," prosecutor Cedrés remarked to Télam, and since the mayor was the defendant, an "important figure, there are people who depend on aid from the Municipality and there was that fear" of declaring .
"There are other people of legal age but they did not want to file (the complaint) because it is a town, many know each other and there is a subjective fear of a value judgment, but every victim has their subjective time," he explained.
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