Buenos Aires, February 11 (NA) – A man was found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old teenager at a construction site in the city of Neuquén. According to the Argentine News Agency (NA), the prosecutor in the case, Gastón Medina, proved during the public oral trial that the events occurred on the night of April 15, 2023, when the aggressor and the victim met in the center of the provincial capital and went to a construction site located at Salta street number 700. According to information from the official website of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), the perpetrator supplied drugs to the victim, which aggravated the context of vulnerability in which the abuse was committed. Medina relied on various testimonies, expert opinions, psychological, genetic, and medical studies to determine that the accused is the author of the crime, while judges Marco Lupica Cristo, Raúl Aufranc, and Lucas Yancarelli unanimously voted for the conviction for sexual abuse with carnal access, as the author. The sentence will be known in the coming days and it is expected that the attacker will receive between 6 and 15 years in prison, in accordance with article 119 of the Penal Code.
