The rape trial of Thelma Fardín against Juan Darthés resumes this Thursday: “What I most want is that this is closed”

This Thursday, January 27, the rape trial of Thelma Fardín against Juan Darthés resumes, for the acts committed in the city of Managua, Nicaragua, in 2008 during a tour of the telenovela Patito Feo, which both starred. At that time he was 45 years old, and she had 16.La new hearing will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, the actor’s native country and where he sought refuge to evade his responsibility and social repudiation of his conduct, to resume with the testimony of the witnesses, postponed in December.

“What I most want is that this be closed and that secrecy is respected as requested by brazilian justice,” Thelma said in dialogue with Télam about the restart of the trial that began on November 30, 2021, three years after she denounced Darthés (2018).

Thelma Fardín after her statement against Juan Darthés for sexual abuse

In this sense, the actress hopes that “the two days will be as planned so that soon we can have a response from The Justice”, regarding that they will take place both on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 January.
Meanwhile, Martín Arias Duval, Thelma’s lawyer, explained to the media that the statement of “seven witnesses is planned virtually” and estimated that Darthés will also provide testimony “because he never testified.” On the other hand, as provided by the lawyer Raquel Hermida Leyenda, legal representative of Anita Co and Calu Rivero, who also denounced Darthés for sexual abuse, “the first day they declare friends of Thelma”, one of them to whom she “told at that time what she had suffered with Darthés”.

On Friday Anita Co will give her testimony “at 2 p.m.,” which was scheduled for December 1, but was postponed to this date. It should be remembered that the actress had spread through her social networks the abuses of the actor when both shared the cast in “Gasoleros” in 1999. For this, Darhés denounced her for “slander and slander.” However, on no occasion was she presented to the audiences and the actress was dismissed. Historical judgment
On Tuesday, November 30, Thelma testified for 4 hours virtually appearing at the Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit on Violence against Women (UFEM), located at Juan Domingo Perón 667 in downtown Buenos Aires.

The rape trial against Juan Darthés resumes this Thursday

It is a historical trial and that could mark jurisprudence given that it is the first to involve three countries: Nicaragua (because it is the place of the fact), Brazil (where the accused is from and where he is residing) and Argentina (country of birth of the complainant), and since the three public prosecutors of those States,  they considered that there was more than enough evidence to charge the actor criminally. If convicted, Darthés will serve the sentence in Brazil and will not be extradited. In this sense, the lawyer argued that a conviction of the actor would be “a message to society that certain behaviors cannot be allowed” and “a turn of the page, a morally restorative ruling,” although “no conviction will erase the effects of the crime.”

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