The Criminal Cassation Court of the province of Buenos Aires set for Thursday, May 4, the new hearing requested by the defense of music teacher Lucas Manuel Puig, sentenced at first instance to 35 years in prison for two alleged sexual abuse of minors. age, who attended the Kindergarten of the San Benjamín de Los Hornos School, in 2010.
On that occasion, in which the music teacher could speak, his lawyers will found the appeal and try to strengthen it.
Last week, the Court of Criminal Cassation was the one who ordered to reject the incident of moderation of the detention situation that the teacher is purging.
The intention was that the defendant could wait in freedom if his sentence acquires a greater degree of firmness or is revoked.
Víctor Violini, Ricardo Maidana and Carlos Natiello, are the judges who voted in Room V against that defense request.
The Oral Criminal Court I of La Plata was the one who imposed the sentence.
“It is noted that the amount of the sentence imposed on the 35-year defendant -for a non-final sentence-, does not allow framing his procedural situation” in order to obtain exemption from prison “which is intended through the challenge”, it was indicated from the Justice.
Meanwhile, it was considered that his stay in prison “finds its legitimacy in the issuance of the conviction itself, to a custodial sentence of effective compliance, with the necessary degree of certainty regarding the authorship and responsibility that the first non-firm instance, represents”.
In this case, yesterday there were new posts on social networks from those who claim their innocence and freedom.
These are groups of parents from the educational establishment and co-workers, plus other colleagues from different entities, who insisted on the request for the Justice to analyze the case and issue a prompt opinion, just on the day of his birthday.
As will be recalled, Martín Chiorazzi, a prosecutor who participated in the oral debate, indicated that the attacks occurred in the multipurpose room and in one of the bathrooms of the Catholic school and, for this, what the victims told, their mothers and experts.
In addition, Chiorazzi requested the immediate indictment of a teacher in charge of one of the rooms in that garden of the San Benjamín School, whom he considered a co-author of the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse and corruption of minors.
In this sense, with the condemnatory resolution, Court I of La Plata requested that this teacher be investigated, because it considered that she could have been an “accomplice” in the abuses for which, twelve years later, Puig was sentenced, who had reached the free trial, after being acquitted by the benefit of the doubt.
