As EL DIA reported exclusively this Friday, the 14-year-old teenager who was kidnapped and sexually abused in La Plata escaped from the Children’s Hospital, where she was hospitalized (see: https://www.eldia.com/nota/2023-5-12-7-54-0-la-adolescente-secuestrada-y-violada-en-la-plata-se-fugo-del-hospital-de-ninos-policiales). Now this newspaper had more details about how she escaped and how the intense search was, which included an extensive operation and only after 5 hours did they manage to find her.
In the official report accessed by this newspaper, it is reported that yesterday at 6:30 p.m. the girl escaped from the building at 14 between 65 and 66, and that as soon as the Justice found out, the Police were notified, who made themselves available to start the search. After several searches, and with testimonies collected, she was found just at 0.20 this Friday wandering on public roads, without signs of violence and in good health.
It was reported that Personnel Search, CP La Plata and GTO personnel were part of the operation, and that the girl was located in the area of 520 and 158, of Melchor Romero. So it was that communication was maintained with the prosecutor’s office No. 16 on duty, who requested intervention from the Family Court and Zonal Service of La Plata. Both agencies once again ordered the hospitalization of the minor in the Children’s Hospital, while, as anticipated, proceedings were initiated for “failure to comply with duties as a public official” against hospital personnel and the person responsible for the minor’s care.
In this way, those who were in charge of the girl were targeted and now the reasons that led her to escape are being investigated. Faced with the escape, security measures were requested to be strengthened and Justice was waiting for what the family ordered, since the minor was lodged at the Fifth police station in our city.
three detainees
As EL DIA has been reporting, there are three men arrested, accused in a case that has a serious criminal classification, which is “qualified sexual abuse with carnal access, aggravated by being committed by at least three people, corruption of minors and deprivation illegal qualified freedom, all in real competition with each other.
Yesterday the guarantee judge of La Plata, Eduardo Silva Pelossi, confirmed the arrest requested by the prosecutor Juan Cruz Condomí Alcorta, regarding those accused of the savage attack on the detriment of the adolescent, who was rescued from a house in Altos de San Lorenzo, where they held her captive with a chain and padlock.
When analyzing the illegal materiality, the magistrate mentioned that “the imputed conduct has been described as follows: “…that at least from April 2023 and until May 9 of the same year, at the address located On Calle 78 between 21 and 22 in La Plata, two male subjects kept 14-year-old PMS deprived of his liberty, -who had escaped from the Sor María Ludovica Children’s Hospital in La Plata and was in a state of street and vulnerability- to access it carnally on repeated occasions via anal, vaginal and oral, promoting with all these acts the premature sexual initiation of the girl. That a third male subject -son of one of the aforementioned and nephew of the other-, knowing the situation described above, did not assist the minor in order to stop said illegal activities on her person ”.
“Alerted that it was police personnel from the La Plata Eighth Section by phone call from the victim, they went to the scene and proceeded to apprehend the subjects,” added the decision.
What the medical tests showed
From the medical tests carried out on the victim, it was learned that “it is concluded that the extragenital examination shows lesions… compatible with blows with or against blunt and hard surfaces, with an evolution of approximately 24 to 72 hours. This being the case, I answered with what was stated by the minor,” the judicial piece said.
Silva Pelossi, for her part, mentioned that “according to the criteria established here, and considering especially that this does not affect the right of defense in court in view of the full knowledge of the description of the facts accused by the Defense -who has the possibility of advising the accused and even disputing them-, it is considered that as the process progresses it is the principles of progressivity and estoppel that will define the legal framework that is finally adopted, therefore, taking into account the provisional nature and not binding of the legal framework corresponds on this occasion to the qualification supported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office “.
Needless to say, the case caused a great commotion in the neighborhood where the rescue procedure took place. Although in principle it was said that the minor was only a day and a half captive, the judicial proceedings mention an even longer period of time.
