10 police officers found “guilty” for abuse in La Tablada

For sexual abuse committed to several detainees in a police station in La Tablada from September 2019 to January 2020, ten police officers were found “guilty” by a popular jury during the early hours of this Saturday. On the one hand, Deputy Commissioner Lionel Maximiliano Gómez, who was then in charge of the 3rd police station of La Tablada, was found guilty as a co-author of the crime of “sexual abuse with aggravated carnal access for being committed by an official of the police force repeated in five facts”, along with officer Silvina Eva Suárez. González, Reales, Silvia Viviana Solari and Lara de las Nieves Taramazzo, while for “vexations” Hernán Federico Garzón, Johanna Elizabeth Romero and Yanina Ester Vargas. Meanwhile, sub-inspectors Javier Ramón González and Ángel Ariel Reales were considered “secondary participants,” and the jury also ruled that Javier Norberto Hinojosa is guilty of “concealment for personal favor.” After knowing the verdict, Judge Gerardo Gayol of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 4 of La Matanza went to an intermediate room for next week, when he will determine the corresponding penalties for each defendant. Likewise, according to Telam, the judge of Guarantees 1 of La Matanza, Mari Castillo, said that there were “situations of humiliation, abuse, discrimination and mistreatment, among other experiences that generated, to a greater or lesser extent, feelings of helplessness, fear and anguish, being the cornerstone of such a diagnosis, assimilable to the episodes narrated in cars. ”

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