Juan Pedro Aleart
sat in the chair he occupies every noon on
Channel 3
, looked at the camera and they gave him air. But the beginning of the last broadcast of the news program
De 12 a 14
was different. Aleart, one of the most followed drivers in Rosario, gave the dramatic story of the ordeal that his brothers went through: sexual abuse, family violence, corruption and suicide that surrounded and still surrounds his family. A really strong story, told with an open heart.
The journalist made public his terrible intimate and family story this Thursday. With one chapter harder than another. He first spoke about his father and said that he distanced himself from him because he was "violent and abusive." And he revealed that the man, according to what he said and reported to the court,
had HIV
and still abused his sister since she was three years old.
"
My father sexually abused my sister in front of me, when I was a child
. He made me and my brother believe that it was a game, that my sister was exaggerating. But the truth always wins," Aleart explained.
"Fortunately he did not infect her, but I am a witness to her panic attacks, deep anguish crises, insomnia, hair loss, loss of body weight. And I know that she thought about taking her own life as a result of everything my father did to her." Aleart said in reference to what his younger sister, Sofía, suffered.
"But my sister has been much stronger and braver. I fought with and for her all these years," added the driver.
The horror lasted for several years and also had the complicity of their mother. "As for me, I fought for her all these years.
My parents, both doctors, medicated her
. I looked for a professional to find the real reasons for her problems, her anguish. We took her out, along with my brother, of the house that did him so much harm," he continued his story.
He said that it took him a while to convince her to file a complaint, but that he finally managed to get her to appear in court.
"I insisted to him ad nauseam, I have actually argued, for him to file the complaint and I took care of his lawyers' fees so that he could finally file the complaint. And that is what happened. I was a witness.
My mother was both a victim of all this as an accomplice
," he said.
Once they managed to file a complaint, the case progressed very slowly. Until a prosecutor, Carla Cerliani, decided to move forward and a new chapter was unleashed: "
My father was notified of the complaint three weeks ago and not wanting to face the atrocity that he had committed, he decided to commit suicide
."
"I was traveling. For me it was terribly sad, but my father decided to ruin his life from the moment he started abusing my sister,” said Juan Pedro. "In his last messages on social networks, he did what he always did. He treated my sister like crazy," he said.
After telling that, he addressed his sister, in the middle of the air on one of the most watched news programs in Rosario: “I want to tell you, Sofi, that
the horror movie is over. That the monster decided to leave
. May you now build your life with freedom. You are free. Let's fly, Sofi."
"An uncle abused me and my brother", the painful memory of the Rosario TV host
But not everything ended there. Because Aleart still had much more to air. And what would follow wouldn't be much less painful.
"As if that were not enough, there is more," Juan Pedro surprised. "This is only part of the story. While all this was happening, in a house where my mother was also a victim but at the same time an accomplice,
an uncle, whom I trusted, took advantage of the context of vulnerability and abused me and my brother
since I was six years old. My parents did nothing. He was the first person I reported to. It was difficult, but I did it," he revealed.
As with his sister, it also took him a long time to be able to come forward and report. She said that she was "in a stage of depression for many months" and that it was very difficult for him to "do the news for all this time with all that" inside him.
"
From 12 to 14
with a lump in my throat, I locked myself in the dressing room to cry. I lost the meaning of life, I didn't feel like laughing, going to parties," he confessed about his intimacy in recent years.
But he returned to what happened in his childhood: "When I was 12, 13 years old, with the few tools I had, I noticed at home that this was happening.
My parents did nothing and I continued to be abused again and again, and my brother too
".
Aleart appeared in court at the end of 2022, when he was already one of the most recognized personalities on Rosario TV.
"For me to make the report was very difficult, to encourage myself to make it as a public figure. I presented three psychological reports from two different professionals, I presented the Rorschach test, you can investigate what it is about: all the indicators of abuse gave me a positive result and I I presented in court," said the host of the midday news program.
In addition to him and his brother, two former students also allegedly suffered abuse from their uncle.
"My brother reported the abuse in the same way that this person did it to me, who was also reported by another person I do not know, who is a former student of the Fisherton Comprehensive School and also reported him criminally for sexual abuse. His classmates also went to testify. There is another female student who was sexually abused. There are already four of them," Aleart continued.
The journalist assured that two judges from the province of Santa Fe supported his presentation: according to their testimony, they said that everything he was telling them "is credible and founded." However,
the act was statute-barred
and for that reason "this person is free."
After going into more detail about the complaint and what the statute of limitations entails, the television host confided: "It has cost me a lot, I have knocked on many doors to change this, to ask for help to seek a little peace. I have found that
the Justice of The province of Santa Fe turned its back on me and made me relive the abuses
.
He then maintained that the case reached the province's highest court. "I hope that this time the members of the Court rise to the occasion and take the side of the sexually abused children who are adults today and not the side of the abusers," she remarked.
Along the way, there was an urgent request to a member of the national government.
"The truth is that the answer I was looking for was found in the last door I desperately knocked on. The response I had was forceful, it was firm, to change this filth of the prescription and that person who committed to me to change this and help many people to try to do it is Patricia.
Patricia Bullrich
with me has been a very human person and firmly committed to changing this to end this filth," he stressed about the meetings he had with the current Minister of Security and leader of the PRO.
After them, the journalist asked the President, legislators and members of the Supreme Court of the Nation to do something. "
There are 17 cases like mine waiting for the Court to define whether they are time-barred or not
, I ask you all, as a victim I ask you, and on behalf of many people who have experienced this and are having a bad time, to really work to end it." with this shit about the statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse and corruption of minors.
The meeting with his uncle and the warning he received
Regarding his uncle, he gave his name and surname, he said that he is a biochemist, that
he abused him "in the laboratory of the British Sanatorium"
and abused his brother "in the laboratory of the American Sanatorium", both medical centers located in Rosario. He also explained that he is a former director of the Fisherton Comprehensive School, where he taught the subject Comprehensive Sexual Education and there a student reported him for sexual abuse.
Now, he continued with the description, his uncle is a director of the Center Català de Rosario and "participates in cultural activities surrounded by children." He regretted that the president of that institution did not answer him "the ten times" that he called him and also added that his relative
is a university professor and director of the teacher training area of the Faculty of Medicine
.
"A person with two criminal complaints for sexual abuse and corruption of minors is the one who trains the teachers of future doctors at the National University of Rosario," he emphasized.
For his part, he said that in 2021 he met him "in a bar in Francia and Mendoza to tell him to his face that he was going to report him, that he was going to go to prison." And the abuser's response was that he had
"important friends at the University who were going to help him
. "
That's how it was: throughout the criminal process, his defense was assumed by two lawyers with extensive experience at the university, "teachers, eminences."
At the close of his crude story, which lasted about 25 minutes, he left a message for all those men who suffered abuse.
"I want to speak now to the men who are on the other side of the screen, who are there and who have been victims of sexual abuse, it doesn't matter if it was 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 years ago. It doesn't matter. I I know what it feels like. It's degrading, it's embarrassing. I know that many have not told it to their wives, their children, their friends, their psychologists. I want to tell them that the only way to heal is to put it into words. is to talk about it, to denounce it," said Aleart.
And to conclude, he chose strong words to break the invisibility of the cases:
"Silence is the best friend of abusers."
"Heal", the emotional story of the Rosario TV host after his story on camera
After telling the horror that he and his brothers went through, Aleart published an emotional story on his Instagram account.
"I promised myself to heal that child who was hurt so much. Soon I will paint the other eye of the Daruma," he wrote about a photograph in which two images from his childhood are seen, a paper with the word "Heal" and the Japanese talisman at the back. which he referred to.
The mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, gave his support to the journalist.
"I am deeply moved by the testimony of Juan Pedro. His courage forces us to treat these issues with the seriousness and administration of justice that they deserve," said the Rosario community leader.
"Juan Pedro, I send you a huge hug, which I hope to give you soon personally," Javkin added.