translated from Spanish: Former Miss Costa Rica Oscar Arias denounced for sexual abuse

SAN JOSE (AP) – the former President of Costa Rica and prize Nobel of the peace Oscar Arias continues to add allegations against her for sexual misconduct. This time a former Miss Costa Rica denounced criminally Arias for alleged sexual abuse. The case was reported by a profile in Facebook dedicated to news of the show which showed images of the complaint, described the facts. The public prosecutor’s Office confirmed Friday to The Associated Press this second complaint which adds to the filed Monday by an anti-war activist who accused Arias of rape.

Photo: AFP’s agreement with Escri-seeing Facebook profile, during Holy week of 2015 the complainant would have been invited by Arias home two-time President make him a friendship request through this social network and offer a copy of his book “with sails, rudder and compass”. The publication showed the book with a dedication of Arias to the model, who has studies in Spanish Philology by what accepted the invitation. “The text of the complaint filed by the woman and reported in the publication described the moment that Arias would have attacked it.” When already I I was getting closer to the door he stood opposite me, traversed in the door that was closed. I am higher than that, however, grabbed my head, I was with loose hair. I seized, came to me the force to the body, i.e. leaving body with body”, says the text of the complaint. It adds that “then with one hand I had my breasts above the clothes and then gave me a kiss on the mouth against my will. I took off me, I was frozen, I didn’t know what to say, what I came to tell you was ‘ Don Oscar, I have to go ‘. I approached the door, he I did nor said anything more”. The complainant said that he did not expect that a person so recognized and admired who act that way. Deputy Prosecutor’s Office of gender “ended up receiving a new complaint filed against Mr Arias Sanchez for the alleged crime of sexual abuse.” “The case accumulated to the complaint filed earlier because it is the same person reported Monday and in the case of apparent crimes of the same nature”, reported the Ministry lawyer Publico.el of Arias, Erick Ramos, said that it will not make statements by respect for the ongoing legal process. The complaint for violation presented Monday by an activist and daughter of an exdiputada of the party of Arias has provoked a movement of outrage in Costa Rica and has unleashed the revelation of alleged abuses and sexual advances by the former President to several women. A journalist and current Director of Comunicaciones de Human Rights Watch and two Costa Rican communicators, as well as the editor of the book published by Arias in 2012, have described situations in which the Nobel Peace Prize would have attacked them, played without their consent or made sexual overtones. Activists of the feminist movement marched Friday night in San Jose in support of the complainants and the slogan “I believe you”.
Arias departed Thursday from the National Liberation Party – the oldest political group in Costa Rica – while the complaints are resolved against.

Although the movement #MeToo splashed several powerful men in the United States, its effects have been more limited in Latinoamerica.desde December in Brazil more than 250 women have accused a prominent spiritual leader of sexual assault and in Argentina is they raised demands for aggression or sexual harassment against a well-known actor, a Senator and a senior political official. However, none had a profile as the Arias, elected twice President of Costa Rica and who the Nobel Peace Prize received in 1987 for his work to put an end to the protracted and bloody civil wars in Central America.

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