Carlos Guajardo
02/23/2020 - 14:21
- Clarín.com
- Police
The accused of hitting and raping the Salta woman in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, and being detained, "suffers from schizophrenia . " But the judge of the case, Oldemar Villa, assured Clarin : "That disease does not make it imputable."
Villa added that the detainee, 24, "may have had an outbreak or not at the time of the attack, but that will be investigative material." The man was identified by María Mercedes during the reconnaissance wheel as the one who raped her.
And the judge added one more fact to the bloody fact that moved Puerto Deseado: it is not ruled out that the detainee has also participated in the murder of Santino (4).
María Mercedes and Santino, the victims of Puerto Deseado.
Judge Villa has been at the court since the morning of this Sunday, where the victim will appear again for the last round of recognition . It is expected that then the second of the assailants of María Mercedes and her son, a minor whose age was not revealed by the magistrate, will be arrested.
María Mercedes is admitted to the Puerto Deseado hospital, which is only two blocks away from the courthouse. The woman has 50 stitches in the head and white-collar injuries to the neck and other parts of the body, although the judge hopes that the experts, who intervene to contain her, give her the approval so that she can be transferred to participate in The recognition wheel.
It is that on Saturday the last reconnaissance wheel was suspended because María Mercedes was exhausted. If the woman is in condition, this Sunday the minor suspect will face the round.
If the boy is recognized, he will be arrested. Then you have to determine your role, although it is believed that he was the one who participated in the murder of Santino, for which he could be helped by the detainee.
In this context, this Sunday at 17 is expected a new march called by the residents of Puerto Deseado to ask for justice for this brutal attack and others who, they claim, went unpunished.
The case
The attack on María Mercedes and Santino occurred last Thursday afternoon, when the woman and her son, who live in Salta and were visiting Puerto Deseado, were walking along Cavendish Beach , located just over a kilometer from the center of The seaside resort of Santa Cruz.
María Mercedes and her Santino had come to visit another son of the woman, who after serving in the army a few years decided to devote herself to carpentry, a job she inherited from her father Celso.
According to the data that the victim could provide to the Police, it was during the beach pass that they were surprised by two men who threatened them and forced them to walk to a cave , since the place is surrounded by cliffs.
Horror in Puerto Deseado. The identikits that were made with the help of the victim.
There they attacked her. After punishing and raping her, they killed the 4-year-old boy with blows for fear that he would give them away , because he "had seen them." María Mercedes saved her life because she pretended to be dead.
According to Judge Villa, at the moment the woman identified the only detainee who has the case, not only because of her face, but also because of her voice . It is that the magistrate arranged during the reconnaissance wheel to speak and shout the same phrases that according to the woman, he said while hitting and raping her. " They were degrading phrases ," the judge said.
This detainee was captured a procedure performed last Friday in the settlement known as "La Fabela", a building that was going to be a clinic, they did not finish it and it was usurped.
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