Jalisco Magistrate Accused of Sexual Abuse Does Not Attend Hearing

The magistrate of Jalisco, José de Jesús Covarrubias, denounced for child sexual abuse did not attend his indictment hearing scheduled for this Tuesday in the prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco.
The magistrate left the judge in charge of the case and the one who was going to determine the crimes that are imputed to him.
Lupita Ramos, a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (Cladem), said that the magistrate “is only seeing how to escape from the action of justice.”

By not showing up, the judge can issue an arrest warrant, although she can also make a new appointment for the magistrate to attend, Ramos explains.
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In the case of Covarrubias the crime charged was child sexual abuse and it was expected that he would also be charged with the crime of corruption of minors, which he had also carried out and in comparison with the first merits preventive detention.

A day earlier, the magistrate tried to postpone the appointment claiming that he had COVID-19, but did not present reliable evidence of the disease.
For the case, feminist lawyers, collectives and Cladem celebrated that the judge chose not to postpone the hearing.
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Original source in Spanish