In recent months, the judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City, Federico Mosco González, has reclassified crimes in at least two cases related to violence against women, which has benefited the defendants.
The judge’s decisions have allowed two men, one charged with rape and the other for attempted femicide, to be released.
In the face of this, the morena bench in the Chamber of Deputies will ask on Thursday the desmise and disabling of Mosco González, as announced by deputy Paola González.
Today @DiputadosMorena we will call for the dismissal and disqualification of control judge Federico Mosco González of @tsjcdmx who freed the @abrilsagaon killer with a resolution “by way” evident act of corruption @wzuloag @ssimey @tatclouthier @mario_delgado @Dolores_PL @mario_delgado https://t.co/POJICNeFuc
— Paola González (@paolagzzcas) November 28, 2019
The first case came last September, when the judge decided not to link a doctor with a variety of backgrounds for alleged sexual abuse practices, who had been arrested after being accused of raping a patient in a public hospital.
Mosco González decided to dismiss the crime of rape, with which the defendant only faced charges for the crime of sexual abuse and was able to do so in the release, without bail payment and without precautionary measures.
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Thanks to this decision the doctor, identified as Augustine “N”, was released.
The second case occurred last September when Mosco Gonzalez reclassified the crime of femicide in a count of attempted “injury and family violence”, which benefited Juan Carlos “N” who last January attempted to murder his then wife Abril Cecilia Pérez.
On 8 November, the defendant’s defense filed an appeal that was granted by Magistrate Hector Jimenez López to withdraw pre-trial detention as a precautionary measure. That same day, Juan Carlos was released by decision of Judge Carlos Trujillo Rodríguez.
Her release caused further outrage because on Monday April was killed by two armed subjects after leaving a hearing for custody of her children, which was requested by Juan Carlos himself.
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In an interview for Animal Político, Javier Pérez, Brother of April, said that the judge’s argument for the reclassification of the crime was “because my sister was asleep and that if (Juan Carlos) she wanted to kill her, she had been awake and not asleep, that’s where the whole case collapsed.”
Abril’s family thinks that April’s death could have been avoided if the judge had not reclassified the case, since after divorcing Juan Carlos she moved to Monterrey, but in recent weeks she was forced to travel constantly to the CDMX by the appeal filed by her ex-husband about the custody of her children, which she filed once she was released.
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