Thelma Fardin criticized the acquittal of Darthés: “Let this not be a message to silence us again”

After the Brazilian Justice has determined that Juan Darthés is acquitted of the case in which he is accused of sexual abuse of Thelma Fardin in 2009, when she was 16 years old and both were part of the cast that toured with the soap opera “Patito Feo”, the actress gave a press conference. Before answering questions from the journalists present at the scene, Fardin thanked the support he received and said that “I want to ask all those people who dared to break the silence, not to feel that this indoctrinates us, because if they do not indoctrinate me, please do not indoctrinate you.” At the same time, he also hit the Brazilian Justice for the sentence executed: “Only 1% of cases obtain conviction. My case had already been absolutely unique in many ways, it was very much that I was also unique in that line and that I got a conviction in the first instance. Please, let this not be a message, even though it is what they are trying to do, let it not be a message to silence us again.” He also explained that “they have tried to install that country has a gender perspective, but Brazil modified its law regarding what sexual abuse is in 2021, it has no gender perspective and this ruling proves it,” adding that “the judge who pronounces sentence is not the one who heard me cry five hours while declaring, while my abuser’s defense asked me absolutely violent questions. He is not the same judge who judges today.” In addition, he pointed out that “the ruling itself says that a large part of the sexual abuse is proven but as happened in 2009 it is prescribed, if it had happened in 2010, it would not be, you have to choose when you are abused. And he asks and explains that there is not enough proof regarding sexual abuse with carnal access, that they expect, that they are asking of childhoods, I was a 16-year-old girl, that they are asking, that they film themselves when they are abused. ” On the other hand, he stressed that for quite some time, great social advances are being seen: “Today we stand differently in front of the links, that is not going to change what a judge of first instance says, it is not going to change what a judicial system says, not what the officials say, We change that as a society and we’re not going to back down on that.” Finally, she made it clear that “we are going to continue working so that Argentina, Brazil, all of Latin America and the world have a gender perspective when it comes to failing. We will go to the Inter-American Court if necessary.”

Original source in Spanish