2023-08-07 15:42:11
Judge Marcos Burgos sentenced Sebastián Escalada to the penalty of one year and six months in prison for conditional execution for the crime of repeated threats to the former Family Judge and current Civil Chamber of Bariloche, Marcela Pájaro, and judicial disobedience.
Besides, prohibited any contact or approach to Pájaro, among other behavior guidelines.
At the end of October of last year, Burgos declared Escalada criminally responsible for the crime of repeatedly threatening Pájaro on two occasions. The penalty was known nine months later.
The issues arose four years ago when the mother of Escalada’s two daughters traveled to the United States on a 90-day travel permit to visit her terminally ill father. They never returned and the man was unable to travel because he was deported.
At that time, Escalada began public questioning of the former judge, threats and even circulated with a plotted vehicle with the name of Pájaro whom He accused her of being responsible for not being able to see her daughters.
At the last hearing, Escalada said that it was never his intention to threaten the judge and that he only wanted to avoid having his daughters taken from him. “The threats are a smokescreen to cover up the judge’s mistake and her morale. I have been claiming to see my daughters for 5 and a half years“, he pointed. He insisted that his intention was not to intimidate Pájaro: “They confuse the victim and the perpetrator. I will continue to fight because I have not yet found justice.”
Pájaro, for his part, explained that Escalada regularly attended the Court despite the fact that she had made it clear that he had nothing else to do. She stated that she had received several calls from colleagues while they were at the Unter union headquarters, where she would participate in a Human Rights meeting. There she Escalada stated that “if she might not give her a solution, then she had to kill the judge.” He said that he began to be afraid because the level of intimidation was increasing.
On one of the occasions, Pájaro recounted, Escalada, along with other people, organized themselves in a pandemic to demonstrate and they must have remained locked up for four hours. She acknowledged having felt terrified and spent two months in police custody at her home.
He added that he had to request a psychiatric license and even suffered episodes of high blood pressure.
In his decision, the judge considered that “the reproached events occurred within the framework of a gender context. This is due to the circumstance of having organized together with other parents (all males) to file a claim once morest the person who makes decisions that are adverse to their interests or claims and specifically it is a judge, also in her capacity as women”. In addition, she stressed that it occurred at a time where the restrictions due to the pandemic were in force.
Burgos understood that these situations “place her (Pájaro) in a situation of vulnerability, vulnerability and inequality in the face of those who carried out the protest. In the same way, the classification of misoandria, used by Escalada in the middle of the trial hearing to describe an aspect or to accuse María Marcela Pájaro, can be interpreted in this way, which shows her clear intention of contempt and discredit towards the named “.
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