Buenos Aires, November 18 (NA) – The Supreme Court of Justice upheld the decision to deny temporary leave to Ana Cristina Moyano, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Matías Berardi, the 16-year-old teenager whose case caused a major social stir.
According to Noticias Argentinas, Moyano's defense had filed an extraordinary complaint to allow her access to the temporary leave regime, but judges Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, and Ricardo Lorenzetti dismissed the filing as inadmissible, thus maintaining the denial issued by lower courts.
Berardi was kidnapped in the early morning of September 28, 2010, after returning from a party at the Pacha nightclub on the North Coastline. She later insisted on the request for temporary leave, despite being on probation within the penitentiary regime.
Applying Article 280 of the National Code of Civil and Procedural Law, the Supreme Court upheld the resolution that had rejected the defense's claim. Both instances emphasized the severity of the crimes, the remaining sentence time, and the lack of significant transformation regarding the circumstances that led her to participate in the kidnapping.
During the pandemic, Moyano had requested house arrest, which was also denied. She was shot in the back, and her body was found in a vacant lot on Route 6. In 2013, the Federal Oral Court No. 3 of San Martín handed down five life sentences to the main perpetrators, including the gang leader, Richard Fabián Souto. Her captors held the teenager hostage in a house in Benavídez while demanding a ransom from his family. The young man managed to escape and asked for help in the neighborhood, but was recaptured when the kidnappers passed him off as a thief. Moyano, Souto's wife, received a 24-year prison sentence for collaborating in hiding the victim and confusing neighbors when the teenager escaped.
