Her brother was convicted of abusing her for 13 years but a technicality got him fired

The sexual assaults of Pablo Chacon A Maria Belen Chacon they happened on several occasions from 1993, when the victim was 6 years old, until 2006, when she was 19 years old. During her childhood, her brother made her believe that they had a secret that should never be revealed and psychologically manipulated her to carry out this abuse.

The “game” proposed by Pablo, when he was barely 8 years old, consisted of drop her pants and masturbate in front of her sister’s innocent gaze, 6 years old This repeated itself countless times until Belén was 11 years old. But over time, the “game” was getting stronger and stronger.

The first time she groped her, she was 13 years old and this memory remains indelible: “It was in the year 2000, during one night, when my parents were asleep. My brother woke me up, started masturbating, and seeing that I couldn’t ejaculate, he came over to my bed and started touching my vagina above and below my clothes. I froze and started to cry but Pablo continued to masturbate next to me until he ejaculated”.

This same situation, where there was physical contact, became more and more frequent (every 15 days) and more aggressive. Pablo started inserting his fingers into her vagina, even hurting her on several occasions.

When Belén was 16 and Pablo has come of age, she realized that this was not a normal situation it could happen between brothers, for whom she started defending herself against sexual abuse but he insisted that she relax and have fun.

Seeing that it was already difficult for him to persuade her like when she was a child, Pablo doubled down and tried to rape her when she was 19. “It happened in 2006, on a date that I cannot specify exactly. He came into my bed at night, took off my underwear and tried to penetrate me anally. My reaction was to hit him on his penis to get him out of the room,” Belén explained.

All these facts have been accredited in a recent trial conducted by judges María Rosa Cassará, Jorge Ariel Apolo and David Perelmuter, who make up Oral Court for Minors No. 1 of the Federal Capital. However, in their decision, they cautioned about a lack of precision of the victim, who she could not determine the exact date she was last abused. This allowed Pablo Chacón to be fired given that criminal action was prescribed.

The prosecution, for its part, had requested 10 years in prison for the accused.

“This Court has proven the circumstances of the manner and place of the facts, in which María Belén Chacón was the victim and Pablo Chacón as the accused. Unable to prove that these events occurred on a date subsequent to 28/11/2006, it is appropriate to DECLARE THE CRIMINAL ACTION EXTINGUISHED BY PRESCRIPTION in the present case”, indicates the judgment signed by the three magistrates. In other words, time played a key role so that Pablo Chacón did not end up behind bars, because in these cases the crime prescribed at 12 years.

“Pablo Chacón was acquitted thanks to a strategy of his defense, which took hold of a technical question and was accepted by the judges. But that doesn’t mean she’s innocent.. He was acquitted a month apart“, lamented Belén in dialogue with Infobase.

This was possible because when assessing the evidence produced during the trial, the Court confirmed that the charge against the accused related to the events that took place. since June 22, 2001 (date on which Belén turned 16) until 2006, without specifying an end date (when Belén was 19).

In turn, the abuse was found to consist of repeated touching by Pablo in the pubic region of Bethlehem and the introduction of his fingers into the vaginal cavity against his express will. Likewise, the last event investigated took place in 2006, more precisely between the months of March and December, when her brother tried to penetrate her anally.

“When I lodged a complaint at first instance, I stated that my brother’s abuse lasted until I was 19. Taking into account that I was born on March 28, 1987, I was 19 until March 28, 2007. But the defense and the judges made a time cut until December 31, 2006,” Belén explained. . .

What is curious is that Belén was able to be judged thanks to an exemplary and unusual decision by judge Alejandro Cilleruelo, of the National Juvenile Court No. 4, which caused the reactivation of the investigation and after the presentation of ” solid evidence” Pablo Chacón was treated by sexual abuse with attempted carnal access aggravated by the existing sibling bond.

“As in my case the crime was valid for 12 years, we were able to go to trial bypassing all the legal proceedings since the prescription had been cut when I filed a complaint, on November 28, 2018”, he said. explain.

“That same justice that initially backed me is now turning its back on me with a very far-fetched explanation. I have no way of remembering the last day I was abused. She’s crazy. The decision was a mess,” The young woman is indignant, who after five years of legal proceedings finds no comfort in so much suffering.

“What my brother did to me has already sentenced me to lifeBelén concluded forcefully.

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