A Uruguayan citizen, Pablo Daniel Rodríguez Laurta, has been charged with child sexual abuse in the province of Córdoba. He is also accused as the presumed perpetrator of qualified homicide due to the relationship, treachery, and gender-based violence against his former partner Luna Giardina and his former mother-in-law Mariel Zamudio. According to the Argentine News Agency, as indicated by the Córdoba Public Prosecutor's Office, Laurta was charged with possessing representations of minors under 18 engaged in explicit sexual activities and representations of their genital parts for predominantly sexual purposes. The complaint was filed by the Sexual Integrity Crimes Prosecutor's Office of the 1st Turn, led by Juan Ávila Echenique. On February 12 of this year, the Uruguayan citizen was transferred to the Concordia Police Department after completing the 120-day preventive detention period for the aforementioned homicides, while being investigated in Entre Ríos for the murder of driver Martín Sebastián Palacio. Currently, the accused remains lodged in the Concordia Police Department until the hearing before the No. 4 Guarantees Court, where the Prosecutor's Office will request an extension of the preventive detention period, arguing a flight risk. According to the reconstruction of events accessed by the Argentine News Agency, on the night of October 7 last year, Palacio met Laura at the Concordia bus terminal, where he paid him one and a half million pesos for a transfer to the city of Córdoba. According to the investigators, the two men already knew each other beforehand, and it was even revealed that the murderer had hired Palacio's services on other occasions. IP He then allegedly murdered the remisero and hid part of the body in the Entre Ríos locality of Estación Yeruá to continue alone towards Córdoba, at the wheel of a Toyota Corolla that belonged to the victim. Finally, in the Córdoba capital, Laurta perpetrated the murders of Luna and Zamudio, burned the vehicle in the Altas Cumbres area, although he was arrested a few days later in a hotel in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos.
