2024-01-02 10:55:58
With the rejection of the Supreme Court of the complaint appeal that had been presented the defense of Sandro “Palito” Ocares, the sentence that sentenced him to 7 years and 6 months in prison for the sexual abuse he committed once morest a woman was firm.
Therefore, days ago police personnel stopped the former mayor of Pilcaniyeu municipality and family member of former mayor Néstor Ayuelef, who is now an official of the provincial government, and they sent him to the Bariloche prison to begin serving his sentence.
Ocares was sentenced on March 19, 2021 by a court, made up of Judge Romina Martini and Judges Bernardo Campana and Héctor Leguizamón Pondal. ANDIn a unanimous ruling, they declared him criminally responsible for sexual abuse with carnal access and simple sexual abuse.
On April 13, 2021, the court sentenced him to 7 years and 6 months in prison. Chief prosecutor Martín Lozada and the lawyer for the complaint Karina Chueri had requested 11 years in prison for Ocares. The private defender had requested 6 years in prison and that he serve the sentence in Pilcaniyeu. The judges rejected that proposal because there is no penitentiary establishment in that town, located regarding 60 kilometers from Bariloche, which is accessed through National Route 23. In addition, they warned that the victim lived there.
A case that traveled through the judicial pyramid
The defense challenged the sentence in all instances. He appealed to the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) of Río Negro, which rejected an extraordinary federal appeal in November 2021 with which he attempted to take the case to the Supreme Court. However, Ocares remained free.
The defense tried the last resort with a complaint before the highest court of justice in the country, which dismissed it on December 14. For this reason, the man’s arrest was ordered and then he was transferred on December 19 to the Bariloche prison.
For The judges, the prosecutor’s office and the plaintiff proved in the trial the abuses committed by the foreman of the municipality of Pilcaniyeu.
Both the prosecution and the complaint proved beyond all reasonable doubt that in the period of time established in the attribution, Sandro Walter Ocares sexually abused the victim on two occasions.
Paragraph of the sentence of the Bariloche trial court that declared the accused guilty in March 2021.
The victim reported Ocares in March 2019 at the police station in that town and due to the seriousness of the events, the case was immediately referred to a Bariloche prosecutor’s office. The investigation took several months until the case went to trial.
The prosecution and the complaint accused him of having abused the victim at the municipality’s museum at the end of February 2019. The woman was hired and carried out cleaning tasks.
Ocares took advantage of the fact that she was alone, attacked her and committed sexual abuse with carnal access to the detriment of the victim, the judges warned. The second simple sexual abuse (touching) happened on March 8, 2019 on FM Patagonia radio. The woman was alone and Ocares burst into the scene. The frightened victim took refuge in the bathroom, but the man forcibly opened the door, entered and groped her.
The judges valued the victim’s testimony that was corroborated by other evidence, such as the statements of the witnesses who heard the woman’s drama, when he dared to tell what he had suffered. They also took into account the statements of the specialists who evaluated the victim and warned, for example, of post-traumatic stress.
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