Jonathan Luna
, the femicide of the girl Micaela Ortega in 2016, who is serving her life sentence in Florencio Varela
changed gender because she perceives herself as a woman.
And this Wednesday they moved him to a pavilion for sexual diversity with the idea that he would finally be transferred to a
female pavilion
.
"We are not going to allow it
," complained the mother of the victim, Mónica Cid, setting up the controversy over the decision of the Justice.
The request to change the flag was formulated through a habeas corpus presented by the
Buenos Aires Committee Against Torture
-and supported by its defense-, reported María Fernanda Petersen, lawyer for the complainant family, according to
La Nueva
.
Monica Cid bursts into tears after the verdict on her daughter's femicide is known.
Photo: File
"Now
he is in a transgender ward,
alluding to the fact that he perceives himself as a woman, that he has a partner and that he asks to be transferred to the women's ward; something that I will not allow even if it takes my life," Cid admitted, with an almost broken voice before the local media microphones.
"It is proven that
he hates women
, that's why he killed Micaela, that's why I need the whole world to find out what Jonathan Luna is asking for, calling himself Joana Luna," added Cid.
Micaela Ortega was the girl murdered in 2016 when she was only 12 years old, and her case became important because it was the first ruling of its kind and put the grooming problem on the public agenda.
In 2020, the national norm that seeks to protect children from grooming, known as "Micaela law", was sanctioned.
Micaela Ortega was murdered in Bahía Blanca, after being groomed.
"The victims' law does not reach us, I find out that he is in another pavilion and asking for another transfer. There was also a change in the title of the case and Justice
now calls it Joana
," the woman said on Wednesday.
Since August of last year, the cover was changed and the person sentenced to life already appears in the legal case as "Joana".
The information was confirmed by members of the Criminal Court No. 2, who in 2017 sentenced him for the femicide of the girl.
A sentence that he is serving in Penal Unit No. 32 of Florencio Varela.
Jonathan Luna was sentenced in 2017 to life imprisonment.
"In the case, J Luna or Joana Luna says, they changed the cover and I will not allow him to have another type of benefit," said the victim's mother and stated that "he has to pay the perpetual life
accordingly
."
From the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service they confirmed to the
Télam agency
that Luna has been staying since this week in pavilion 11 of the Varela prison, intended for inmates with a diversity of genders.
After learning of the judicial decision, Petersen submitted a letter to the Bahia Oral Court notifying the "shock" that caused the relatives of the girl and asking for explanations for the "benefits" that the convicted person is having.
There were marches and demonstrations demanding the appearance of Micaela in 2016, until they finally found her body.
"We are not going to object to their self-perception or gender issue, what we are saying is that this situation must be taken into account in the context of the type of crime we are talking about," Petersen explained.
The lawyer commented that the Court "should have informed it because it is a matter of relevance to the victim, there is a law that, although it is at the national level, the province adheres to it at the end of 2020 because it is the Victim law and they do nothing," they said. complained.
Grooming and Femicide: the first case since the law was established
Micaela disappeared on April 23, 2016 after meeting Luna, and her beaten and strangled body was found on May 28 near Route 3 on the outskirts of Bahía Blanca, in the midst of a search by security forces and police. their families.
Jonathan Luna, upon being arrested.
The 12-year-old girl had suffered grooming: sexual harassment via the Internet, often creating false profiles, as Luna had done to deceive Micaela on Facebook.
After verifying his criminal act in the case, Luna was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2017. And it was the first time in the country, since the crime was criminalized at the end of 2013, that a grooming trial was held and femicide.
