Buenos Aires, February 10 (NA) – Federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado spoke out on Tuesday in favor of lowering the age of criminal responsibility for minors who commit crimes, as promoted by the government through a bill in that regard to be debated in Congress. "Legislation must adapt to the reality we live in, we must define what kind of country we want as Argentines," she stated. She mentioned a dating app and said she did not know it would cause so many problems, and also referred to police officers who asked her for more and more money. She continued: "We maintained absolute confidentiality about the content of this letter out of respect for the family and to preserve the investigation." Regarding the resolution of the case that led to the identification of the inmates who demanded money transfers by posing as police officers, she stated: "It is worth highlighting the team of police officers from the Homicide Division of the Federal Police, they committed from the first minute and helped us." "We arrived at some recordings with alarming content, which reveals what happens in the prison system, it shows us that the detainees are an idle workforce that has incredible time to keep committing crimes," she detailed. Finally, she specified that the seven inmates behind the scam and death of the soldier "were convicted for aggravated robbery with the use of weapons." "Do we want the law to protect criminals or to protect those who choose the path of work, effort, and study? I agree with lowering the age of criminal responsibility for minors," Arroyo Salgado stated in declarations to Radio Rivadavia collected by the Argentine News Agency. On the other hand, the magistrate who was in charge of the investigation into the case of the soldier who committed suicide in Olivos Quinta also referred to that topic, of which the details that led the 21-year-old young uniformed man to take his own life, a victim of a scam by a group of inmates, became known in recent hours. "Next to his body there was a farewell letter, which was like a starting point."
