A 72-year-old psychiatrist was detained under house arrest, accused of
keeping his wife captive for more than a year
, who remained bedridden in a room in a home in
Belgrano
.
According to the victim's complaint,
she was medicated by her partner
.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) of the City, the case began from the telephone complaint of a 65-year-old woman who called the police station and reported that her husband was
constantly mistreating her
, and also said that she was having problems. health and
could not move due to a lumbar injury.
When the City Police arrived at the address on Virrey Loreto Street, they found that the man lived on the sixth floor, while the woman
was confined in an adjoining room on the terrace
, in
terrible environmental and hygienic conditions
.
Prosecutor Juan Cruz Artico ordered the search of the home, in which "the conditions of extreme vulnerability in which the woman was found were verified, due to the lack of diagnosis and adequate medical treatment, and the terrible environmental and hygiene conditions." which her husband, a 72-year-old psychiatrist, had subjected her to," the MPF detailed in a statement.
In her statement, the woman reported that
it was her husband who gave her medication
.
The woman was assisted and transferred to the Pirovano Hospital, where she remains hospitalized until she can be transferred to a mental health institute.
The accused was
arrested and charged with aggravated abandonment of a person and possession of a firearm
without authorization, given that 3 firearms were also found on him during the search.
He is under house arrest and an order prohibiting him from approaching and making any contact with the victim.
"The prosecutor framed the events in a context of gender violence in its domestic form, where physical, psychological and economic violence was specifically exercised against the woman by her spouse."
confirmed from the MPF.
D.D.