translated from Spanish: NHDRS are complaint for sexual torture woman in Hospital Horwitz

the National Institute of human rights, through its metropolitan Regional Office, after receiving a complaint of sexual torture suffered by a woman who entered last February the service of urgency of the Institute psychiatric Dr. José Horwitz Barak, presented a complaint for the crime of torture to the third Court of warranty of Santiago, to determine the responsibilities of the case. According to it in a statement, February 3 last about 14:30 hours, a woman of 31 years of age of initial M.A.Z.M, joined the emergency service of the Hospital Horwitz. While there, and while she was lying on a bed and unconscious product of pharmacological sedation, a paramedic technician took her hand and put it on his genitals, also introduced his penis in the mouth of the woman. These facts were recorded by a security camera in the room of the hospital, whose images were found inadvertently by another official February 7, 2019, who warned of the situation to the address of the establishment. The above product is ordered the suspension of the involved in responsibilities, research summary corresponding and performed the complaint by these facts before the public prosecutor’s Office Center Norte.Luego of receiving the complaint and with the approval of the victim, the NHDR filed the legal action in this case acquires a special connotation, because it involved the realization of an act not consented, perpetrated by a public official and which caused a serious sexual and psychological suffering on the victim.

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