Lucía Pérez's gynecologist saw intimate injuries and contradicted the official conclusion

It is not forensic, but the Court that is carrying out the second trial for the death of Lucía Pérez (16), which has two defendants for sexual abuse followed by death, authorized the adolescent's gynecologist to observe images taken in the

.

What she discovered with the naked eye contradicts the opinion of the medical board.

Her testimony was questioned by the defenses.

"Esquimosis on the left lip

," said gynecologist Mirta Santana as soon as she saw the first of the photos enlarged by a projector.

The sequence continued, and each time she noted some type of injury, including a sphincter tear "as often happens in childbirth."

The lawyer Verónica Heredia, representative of Lucía's parents, Marta Montero and Guillermo Pérez, present in the room, asked her for the definition of eschymosis: "It is about the impact of

that causes blood vessels to break."

She said that the injuries, the bruises that she was observing were not the adolescent's when she saw her in her office.

"In the clinical history I record what I see, an injury for example. If I had seen it, I would have written it down," Santana explained. 

To the defenses of Matías Farías and Juan Pablo Offidani, the defendants, even before knowing what the gynecologist could respond to about the images, opposed their being shown them.

Lucía Pérez's mother during the oral trial for the death of the adolescent in 2016 in Mar del Plata.

Laura Solari, for Farías, understood that "what she was trying to obtain was new evidence based on an expert test already carried out by a medical board", and she raised her objection;

the same for César Sivo, for Offidani: "It borders on procedural bad faith to try to introduce expert evidence when it is not authorized."

Heredia and the prosecution insisted: "It is not expertise, it is testimony, the Court will understand, after the highly exalted medical board could not even put the victim at the scene," said prosecutor Leandro Arévalo.

The accusation's reference pointed to the board of surgeons and pathologists who analyzed the autopsy examination, who declared that they did

, although they spoke of premortem injuries, although they clarified that such a point did not enable them to affirm or rule out that Lucía Pérez has been a victim of abuse.

The judges Alexis Simaz, Roberto Falcone and Gustavo Fissore stepped aside to deliberate and ended up making room for the complaint.

The doctor Santana

on the sequence of projected images. 

After noticing lesions in the

, he said that "it was not usual for patients to come for a check-up with this," because of the condition he described. 

Lucía Pérez, the 16-year-old victim for whom two defendants are being tried.

The same as the day that the forensics declared and photos of the autopsy were exhibited, for the press and for those who attend as amicus curiae (observers), who follow the debate from another room, the transmission was

.

Audio only enabled. 

When Santana testified in November 2018, during the first trial (annulled by Cassation), he did not see the autopsy photographs.

That time, as now, he recounted that in the control that he had carried out on Lucía in February 2016, he had not found any particularity.

Defender Sivo asked at the end to close the doctor's testimony: "How many autopsies did you do?" He asked her to discredit her voice: "Autopsies? No, none," said Santana.

other witnesses

Before, the director of the School of Secondary Education No. 3, José María Dicciano, where Pérez was studying, declared, whom he recalled "normal in his behavior and conduct";

the couple in the house where Farias rented, Daniel Olmos, who the day after the death of the young woman saw them both "very exalted, but Farias more regretful."

The Court also heard Laura Malacalza, from the Undersecretary for Comprehensive Approach to Gender-Based Violence, who argued that "marks do not always remain on the body" when situations of domination and oppression occur. 

Later, the expert psychologist Claudia Bertarini maintained that the

of a minor woman like Lucía

in a consumption situation, whether it is alcohol or drugs. 

On the morning of this Thursday, the judges and the parties, at the request of the prosecutor, will make a visual inspection of the house that Farías rented, in the Alfar neighborhood, where Lucía died.

The procedure - they agreed on the peculiarity in the room - could be postponed in case of rain.

On Friday, the defense witnesses of Farias and Offidani testify, whose investigative statements, those of the investigation, were read at the end of the hearing.

"It turned me around," Offidani recounted that Farias told her then, and the stories were heard about how they tried to revive her and then took her to the health room;

Farias, in his investigation, speaks of consensual sexual relations, which is maintained by his defender, which refutes the accusation.

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