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Justice rejected the request for the release of one of the six accused of gang rape a young woman in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. The detainee’s defense stated that will appeal the decision while the judge of the case will decide this week if he dictates the preventive prison for all the authors of the act.
who requested the release was Thomas Fabián Domínguez, the 21-year-old who was the only one to ask for that benefit. But both the Criminal and Correctional Judge 21, Marcos Fernández, and the prosecutor Eduardo Rosende considered that there is a risk of obstruction of the investigation and flight.
However, for Domínguez’s defender, Jorge Alfonso, considered that it is an “arbitrary” resolution, for which he will appeal, as advanced to Télam. According to him, “the judge disregarded the constitutional mandate, international treaties and Supreme Court rulings.”
gang rape It happened on Monday of last week in the area of Serrano Square. The 20-year-old victim assured the court that is able to recognize those who abused her.
Up to 20 years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse
The six defendants were arrested red-handed. Is regarding Tomas Fabian Dominguez (21), Angel Pascual Ramos (23), Lautaro Dante Ciongo Pasotti (24), Steven Alexis Cuzzoni (20), Franco Jesus Lykan (24) e Ignatius Round (22). The penalty pending for the crime of sexual abuse aggravated by the intervention of two or more persons is 20 years in prison.
The incident occurred on Monday’s holiday. February 28 in the followingnoon, in broad daylight, at 1300 Serrano Street, in Palermo Soho. A couple of bakers and another neighbor intervened when they saw that a girl was being abused in a group inside a Volkswagen Gol parked next to the sidewalk.
According to the stories, four of the defendants (Ramos, Ciongo Pasotti, Cuzzoni and Lykan) were inside the car with the victim and the other two (Dominguez and Retondo) they sang and played the guitar on the sidewalk, acting as a “bell”.
When testifying last week before the judge of the case, the victim said that he met five of the six detainees (he saw the rest on the street, later) that same day a Thames store at 1600, where he arrived following 5 in the morning with a friend from San Fernando.
In these last days, the girl was able to make a physiognomic description of each of the aggressors and even assured that he would identify them if necessary.
The young woman declared a few days ago and prompted criminal action once morest the six. She forgot much of what happened because she was forced to consume drugsbut she did detail what happened before and when she woke up in the hospital already with signs of having been abused.
