Villa case: the victim’s lawyer maintains that he can be “called to inquire”

After the new complaint against Sebastián Villa for gender violence, sexual abuse and attempted homicide, the victim’s lawyer, Roberto Castillo, assured that “he should be called to give an investigative statement” and “it would not be unreasonable” to be ordered to be remanded in custody, due to the overwhelming evidence presented so far. In an interview with Urbana Play, he stated: “He is in a position to be called to an investigative statement. Due to the expectation of punishment and the procedural risk that exists, I consider that it would not be unreasonable to think that a preventive detention is dictated,” and added: “The victim was overwhelmed after the fact, that I consider a manipulation, taking advantage of a girl who was in a state of vulnerability and loneliness. (The young woman) couldn’t believe that a person she loved somehow ended up performing this action.”

The lawyer maintains that the procedural risks to dictate the preventive detention are the hindrance of the criminal process “by trying to contact different witnesses” and that because he is a foreign person he has no roots in Argentina since “all last year he said he wants to leave Boca Juniors”. In addition, he referred to the measures he requested, such as that the doctor of the gynecology service of the Penna Hospital who attended to the complainant be relieved of professional secrecy, “so that she can comment on everything she saw” when attending to her the day after the abuse. ” The victim was overwhelmed after the fact, that I consider a manipulation, taking advantage of a girl who was in a state of vulnerability and loneliness. (The young woman) could not believe that a person she loved ended up somehow performing this action,” he said.

Original source in Spanish