They benefited Lautaro Teruel, sentenced to 12 years for sexual abuse, with house arrest

On October 18, 2021,

was sentenced to 12 years in prison for two cases of sexual abuse and sent to a Salta prison.

After a presentation of habeas corpus presented by his defense lawyer, Justice granted the request in the last hours and the son of one of the members of the Los Nocheros group received the benefit of

.

This was resolved by the 1st Guarantee Court.

Nomination at the fair, by magistrate Martín Pérez, who granted the benefit after the request of the defense, by Juan Casabella Dávalos.

Since the conviction was carried out and he was transferred to the Villa Las Rosas prison,

After dismissing the appeals, cassation and unconstitutionality resources;

The judge at the fair Martín Pérez made room this Monday for the extraordinary federal appeal to go for the house arrest of Lautaro Teruel that occurs when "a person housed in a jail, police station or other distribution has illegitimately aggravated the conditions of deprivation of liberty " .

In this regard, the defense arguments had been that the defendant required

due to a problem -it would be an infection- in one of his feet with risk of amputation.

Consequently, the son of the folk musician will continue to serve his sentence in a private home and an

will be placed on him .

In addition, as many times as necessary, he will be transferred to a medical clinic to treat the health problem that afflicts him.

In this sense, the Salta Penitentiary Service reported that the conditions for the complete recovery of Teruel, without risk of relapse, were not met.

For this reason, the habeas corpus was raised, so that the domiciliary modality is complied with.

Last year, Teruel

.

It was only in December that he had returned to Prison Unit No. 1.

Since June, he has been staying at the Santa Clara de Asís clinic.

"He contracted a germ that entered him through an injury to his toe and lodged in the bone, which was already taken over by the infection. Some of the doctors who saw him were already proposing amputation of the toe because the thing had transcended to such a point, that there was a risk that the general infection would spread to the rest of the limb," his lawyer explained.

Sentence

Lautaro Teruel was sentenced on October 18, 2021. Photo: Courtesy Jan Touzeau / El Tribuno

Lautaro Teruel was sentenced on October 18, 2021 to

and sent to a Salta prison.

The first corresponds to a girl, who denounced that she abused her repeatedly when she was between 10 and 13 years old.

The second cause was for the sexual abuse of a young woman who denounced him for having raped her, in January or February 2014, when she was 19 years old. 

In his last words, before the decision of Chamber III of the Salta Trial Court, made up of Carolina Sanguedolce, María Gabriela González and Pablo Farah, Teruel expressed: "I simply want to apologize" to the victim, who was a minor at the time. at the time of the events, "to his family" and "to tell him that whatever the outcome of this, I am going to continue working to repair what needs to be repaired and start living again."

"I want to apologize to my family for all that I have made them suffer, and thank them for their support, especially my mother, who stayed at my house crying and God willing that I can see her again in a little while," he added. broken by crying

Mario Teruel and Juan Casabella Dávalos, lawyer for the convicted young man.

Photo: Jan Touzea

The Chamber did not uphold the claim of incompetence or the nullity of the trial that the defense had presented, and sentenced Teruel to 12 years in effective prison,

They spoke of four facts and in the verdict they highlighted the "corruption of minors aggravated by being a minor under 13 years of age and by mediating deception."

The sentence also focused on the fact that it was a violation

In this way, the house arrest that the defendant was already serving had been revoked.

The judge had requested that the Penitentiary Service provide psychotherapeutic treatment for Teruel, after a diagnosis by specialists and for as long as they advise.

At the same time, it was requested that their fingerprints be part of the record of recidivism.

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Before the sentence, Lucio Dupuy's grandfather asked for "an exemplary sentence" against the defendants and "that they be separated once and for all."