08/08/2021 4:37 PM
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Updated 08/08/2021 4:37 PM
On February 29, 2020, in Catriel, Río Negro, Agustina Atencio (17)
refused to have sexual relations
.
For the prosecution and the complaint,
Ezequiel Rebolledo (22) beat her and threw her into the river
.
The teenager drowned.
In the last hours, the defendant was found
guilty
of femicide by a
popular jury
.
The decision of the 12 jurors, six men and six women, was
unanimously
against Rebolledo, within the framework of the first debate of this type in the Alto Valle de Río Negro district, and the second in the province since the reform was promoted. criminal procedure.
The trial, which began on August 2, lasted a week and the jury that found Rebolledo guilty on Friday received instructions from Judge Marcelo Gómez.
Before the verdict was known, the complaint and the prosecutors Martín Pezzetta and Santiago Márquez Gauna had asked the popular jury that Rebolledo
be found guilty
.
Ezequiel Rebolledo was found guilty of the femicide of Agustina Atencio in 2020. Photo: Facebook
"Both the prosecution and the complaint supported in their respective allegations the theory that Rebolledo was the author of the femicide of Agustina Atencio (17), in
an attack triggered by the refusal of the young woman
to have sexual relations with the accused," according to a statement from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Río Negro.
Meanwhile, the young man's defenders considered that it could not be proven that he had previously attacked her, so it was
an accident or self-injury
.
Now the judge must define a new hearing to announce the conviction.
For cases of femicide, the only penalty provided is
life imprisonment
, which in practice represents at least 35 years of effective compliance.
The case
Rebolledo was not unknown to Agustina.
During the trial, prosecutors realized that
the victim's sister had been
the defendant's
girlfriend
.
The young woman testified before the jury that she had ended the relationship because it was violent.
The night before the crime, Rebolledo
had tried to seduce another girl
during a party.
He even offered him wine on repeated occasions and, faced with an inconvenience,
took a firearm and fired two shots
.
Agustina Atencio was 17 years old.
Photo: Facebook
After these events, according to the prosecution, on the afternoon of February 29, 2020, Agustina was with Rebolledo in the area of the "Los Rodríguez" campsite, next to the Colorado River in the town of Catriel, in the north of Río Negro.
They had come there after Rebolledo had picked her up to share alcoholic beverages at the spa, taking advantage of the fact that the girl was drunk.
Under these circumstances, he managed to get the adolescent to accompany him to another more hidden sector, but given her refusal to have sexual relations, Rebolledo
attacked her by force,
causing injuries to different parts of her body.
Then he hit Agustina on the head and threw her into the river, where she
drowned
minutes later, while Rebolledo left the place.
According to the autopsy, the injuries present on Agustina's body were produced when she was alive, and some of them were
compatible with a sexual assault
.
Source: Télam
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