MIAMI.- In December 2018, the actress argentina Thelma Fardinwith the support of the Actrices Argentinas collective, stated that she was a victim of sexual assault by the Brazilian actor Juan Darths. The incident occurred in Nicaragua in 2009, when they were on a tour for the youth series Patito Feo.
Six years later, and after multiple challenges, the justice of Brazil found the 59-year-old interpreter guilty and sentenced him to six years in prison.
“I had lost faith in Justice,” Fardin said during a press conference after the news became public.
“This sentence has to be a message of hope for all those people who are still suffering some type of abuse. It has to be a hope so that, even if they think it is very difficult, that the person they have to denounce is very powerful.” and that it has many tools, there is a possibility of reparation. Even though my case obtained justice today, it is not the reality of most cases,” he explained.
The struggle
The case against Darths, whose given name is Juan Pacifico, suffered a significant setback in 2023, when he was acquitted of the accusation of sexual abuse with carnal access by the Brazilian justice system.
“That first instance ruling was signed by Judge Fernando Toledo Carneiro, deputy of the Federal Criminal Court 7 of San Pablo, where the process against Juan Pacfico was continued according to the birth name of the actor after a request from the prosecutor’s office was accepted. on April 6, 2021. At that time, an international arrest warrant was pending against the actor, issued on October 17, 2019 by a court in Managua, where the opening of the case for ‘aggravated rape’ had been accepted after Fardin travel to Nicaragua to ratify the complaint for the events that occurred on May 17, 2009,” reported the newspaper. The Nation of Argentina.
According to what was reported at the time, the actor was acquitted because no evidence was found to prove that there was penetration, a fact that the penal code in force in the nation required as a requirement for the sentence of aggravated rape.
“The magistrate stated that the report of three other women demonstrated the defendant’s modus operandi and that the witnesses proposed by the complaint were clear at the time of telling the details of the abuse that Fardin had told them, but that was not enough for a conviction for rape. Beyond highlighting the coincidences of the statements and the support given by psychological experts to the victim, Toledo Carneiro maintained his position of not judging the abuse described, but rather the investigated crime of rape and, in that case, he defined that the doubt benefited the victim. accused,” the media emphasized.
Justice
Fardin made his complaint public through a testimonial video in which he detailed how the interpreter, 29 years old.
“It was in 2009. I was 16 years old and we were on a children’s tour. I was a girl. The only adult actor was 45 years old. He started kissing my neck and I told him no. He grabbed my hand and made me touch him and He told me, look at how you make me, making me feel my erection. He threw me on the bed and started performing oral sex on me. He put his fingers in me and I kept saying no. I told him: Your children are my age, but he continued. on top of me and penetrated me, until someone knocked on the door, I stopped, Juan got off me and came out. Thanks to someone speaking, today I can speak. When I said it, I found myself surrounded by people who were willing to take care of me. give me a lot of love,” said the actress.
After revealing the fact, the actress not only had the support of her close loved ones and the Actrices Argentinas collective, but also with the organization Amnesty International, as well as the collaboration of the prosecutors’ offices of Nicaragua, Argentina and Brazil.
Darth’s conviction was for statutory rape, which evidenced that there was penetration, and had two votes in favor and one against.
Although the interpreter may appeal the decision, it was known that the regime he must comply with will be semi-open, since he will be able to leave the prison during the day, but must return to spend the night in his cell.
