A nurse from La Plata will begin to be tried this Monday, February 6 in the Criminal Court of La Plata, accused of raping a patient judicially declared mentally insane who was in his charge in a residence located in front of Juan Manuel de Rosas square. According to the preparatory criminal investigation, which was conducted by the prosecutor Cecilia Corfieldthe nurse attacked the patient while he was showering him and on another occasion insisted that he perform oral sex on her, but the victim did not agree to it.
The suspect must answer for the crime of “sexual abuse with aggravated carnal access” that It has a criminal scale of 8 to 20 years in prison.
The axis of the debate will be that the victim recounted the event long after it occurred and the wounds healed. In this case It will then be the word of the victim (declared mentally insane) against the word of the accused on whom the indication of opportunity weighs, since he was in the care of the patient in the residence located in the vicinity of 13 and 60.
The defense will question the credibility of the testimony of a person declared mentally insane. If the defendant lied, he is not charged with false testimony because it is the word of an insane person who it is not known if he will be able to testify at trial.
The accusation is in the hands of the trial prosecutor Victoria Huergo and the debate will be in charge of the Oral Criminal Court V of La Plata.
