A man who was released at trial accused of groping a co-worker (simple sexual abuse) was formally arrested after a witness revealed that she was also the victim of repeated rapes by the suspect. Against this background, the trial prosecutor Victoria Huergo reported the situation to the prosecutor on duty Eugenia DiLorenzo who requested the arrest of the subject, judicial sources confirmed to 0221.com.ar.
The defendant was identified as Gustavo Jose Benitez (55)who worked as a municipal employee in the Delegation of Villa Elisa. Last week he began to be judged accused of groping a local cleaning employee. According to the case, the incident occurred on November 28, 2021 on the premises of the OFA ex-factory in the aforementioned La Plata town.
According to the complaint, the woman was talking to Benítez when a button on her shirt accidentally came off. In these circumstances, she always appears in the file, Benítez “he pounced” on the woman and touched her “breasts under her clothes”.
In his defense, the defendant pointed out that the woman “had a very low-cut shirt” and told him that “it had a broken button” to which the defendant advised that he close it with a “staple gun”, provided the information of a possible witness and He denied groping the complainant’s body.
The debate was taking place in the Correctional Court 1 of La Plata at the time a witness entered and said that the defendant raped her on repeated occasions. It was so that the prosecutor Huergo immediately communicated her complaint to her pair on duty Di Lorenzo. In a few minutes, Benítez was apprehended due to the possibility of him escaping and later he was officially detained, accused of the crime of “sexual abuse with carnal access”.
The identities of the women will be kept confidential so as not to invade their privacy, while the suspect was investigated and it is expected that in the next few days the prosecutor Di Lorenzo will analyze whether or not to request the preventive detention of the accused man. From the investigation, they already took a statement from the complainant and other people.
