translated from Spanish: Lawyer for Renato Poblete’s whistleblowers said he “should be asked” to Benito Baranda “why he didn’t report the facts”

Juan Pablo Hermosilla, lawyer of the Foundation for Trust, called Benito Baranda, for his sayings last Thursday, where he assured that when he was chaplain of the Home of Christ there were two complaints against Renato Poblete.It was in the program State N.It was in the program State N.It was in the program State N TVN, where he insisted that “he reports two crimes and reports two women who, he recounts, ‘approached and said this is a violent approach trying to touch and kiss them,’ that’s a crime, it’s called sexual abuse.” In this sense, he reiterated that “you should ask Benito Baranda why he did not report the facts, I understand that he is a psychologist”, adding that it is “obvious that the use of force to kiss a woman or touch or embrace her, is a crime. It’s a crime at the time and it’s a crime today, it’s not new crimes, that’s called sexual abuse, so why wasn’t this reported criminally?” he said. Although, he said he didn’t think it was an intentional situation. “I imagine it has to do with the tremendous power that this Mr. Poblete had. (…) This scandal occurs and this has a backward effect on people, not only on victims, on witnesses who are of goodwill, in the case of Benito Baranda, and begin to remember things and re-sign them.”

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