They call for impeachment against Magistrate accused of abuse against minors in Jalisco

Guadalajara, Jalisco .- In order to face a criminal process, the father and lawyers of a minor who was allegedly abused by the Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, José de Jesús Covarrubias Dueñas, asked the local Congress for a trial that allows the judge to be discouraged. Covarrubias Dueñas was singled out in March 2019, during the Me Too movement, as part of academics who had allegedly harassed female students, and on November 16 they denounced him for alleged abuse of a 15-year-old girl. Fernando, father of the victim, and the lawyers Óscar Arturo Díaz and Isaac López Medina, backed by the deputy of Hagamos, Mara Robles, presented to Congress a request for trial so that the judge can be subject to criminal action, taking away the jurisdiction that gives him immunity. ” That the deputies, echoing the voice that has been demonstrating here in Jalisco, do what is conducive and withdraw the position to this man so that he faces the consequences of his actions (…), and faces that process like any citizen, “said Díaz.La deputy explained that the request for trial against the judge is added to two initiatives presented by the legislators of the PRI and Hagamos.Read more: Overcrowded prisons in Guanajuato; “If you have the political will, if you are very clear about the problem and want to stop the abuse, fix the legal and fix the rules, it is something we can do,” he said. Weather in Guadalajara, Jalisco, today November 26, 2021

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