In mid-December 2020, on the outskirts of Nueva Concepción, Chalatenango, Carlos Ernesto Lemus Ávalos, then 21 years old, entered a 13-year-old girl’s room through the window and forced her to have sex. .
The following day, the victim told her parents and they filed a complaint with the Attorney General of the Republic and the subject was detained with an administrative order. The defendant attended the evangelical church where the victim’s father works as a pastor and had earned the trust of the family for which he frequented the minor whom he told he was in love with her, but the adolescent rejected him, which would have been the reason for the rape.
The trial for the crime of rape of a minor or incapacitated person took place in the Chalatenango Sentencing Court where the documentary and expert evidence was presented, including the statement of the minor through the Gesell camera and the reports of the analyzes carried out by the Institute of legal medicine.
With the certainty of Lemus Ávalos’s guilt, the judge sentenced him to 14 years in prison and payment for civil liability.
