translated from Spanish: Ten years after the Candela case, they expect the second trial to begin

On August 22, 2011, Candela Sol Rodríguez was found in a field nine days after she disappeared in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Tesei.  Judges Diego Bonanno, Raquel Lafourcade and Mariela Moralejo were in charge during 2017 of the investigation and convicted three defendants for the kidnapping and murder of La Candela, while in 2020, Chamber IV of the highest criminal court in Buenos Aires confirmed the sentences. Hugo Bermudez was sentenced to life in prison for co-authoring the crime of illegal deprivation and the murder of the little girl. Leonardo Jara was also considered a criminal co-author. In addition, he was the one who made the telephone threat received by Betiana Labrador, the baby’s aunt. “Now you’re never going to find your daughter. They’re never going to find it! I assure you, until that conchuda does not return the guita, you will never see it again. Ask the husband where he left the guita,” read the audio used as evidence in the trial. On the other hand, Gabriel Fabián Gómez was considered a secondary and necessary participant in the kidnapping and murder and sentenced to four years in prison. The prosecutor’s office reported that a second trial will soon be held in which Miguel Ángel “Mameluco” Villalba will be tried as “necessary participants”; Sergio Chazarreta; Hector “El Topo” Moreyra and Nestor Altamirano.At the time, the magistrates maintained that the motive for the kidnapping was a “settling of scores against Candela’s father, for some crime he had committed,” in reference to Alfredo Rodriguez, who at the time of his daughter’s disappearance was serving a sentence for asphalt piracy.” They are all lies. We always live with the right thing, without anything left over. And if I had had money saved, it wouldn’t have been like that. Also, we’ve been together with my husband for 23 years. I know very well what it’s like. He loved his daughter just as I did, and we are two parents who continue to suffer. The difference is that he does it in silence, he doesn’t want to talk,” refuted Carlona, Candela’s mother.

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