The case of the two children, two brothers aged 6 and 8, tortured shocked the country in September last year.
The plenary session of the Judicial Council resolved the dismissal of the prosecutors who carried out the first investigations into the torture of two minors in the Naranjal canton, in Guayas.
The case of the two children, two brothers aged 6 and 8, tortured shocked the country in September last year. At that time it was known that the child had been burned, raped and tortured, while the girl pointed out her stepmother for the attacks.
In this case, the woman and the father of the minors were arrested on September 5, but hours later they were released by court order. The prosecutor in the case did not request preventive detention for both.
Last October, the president of the Judiciary, María del Carmen Maldonado, resolved the suspension of the two prosecutors while the disciplinary investigative process lasted, after the prior declaration of manifest negligence by the Provincial Court of Justice of Guayas
Initially, the prosecutor Érika V. was sanctioned for alleged inaction when she learned that the minors “were subjected to mistreatment, injuries and alleged sexual abuse, and she should have requested protection measures for them, regarding the reading of the reports presented and the certified copies of the process and punctually of the same informative part ”, it was indicated in a resolution of the Provincial Court of Justice.
Likewise, prosecutor Kenneth AQ was sanctioned for starting an investigation for rape and filing charges for physical violence, with a medical report stating evident injuries of a physical-sexual nature. Another mistake, according to the report, was not bringing charges against the children’s father.
On the other hand, the chamber of the Court that reviewed the complaint considered that Judge Wilmer T. was not found guilty, as he had granted precautionary measures to the stepmother of the victims at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, since the woman was breastfeeding an 8 month old baby.
The Guayas Judiciary Council made a reasoned report within disciplinary file 1038-202 recommending the dismissal of the prosecutors who handled the case. The plenary session of the Judiciary had the competence to issue the final resolution, which was determined this Monday 3.
This Tuesday, the 4th, Maldonado indicated that the plenary session by majority of three votes determined the dismissal for “manifest negligence”, supported by disciplinary control reports and declarations of the Provincial Court of Guayas.
On December 1, the Prosecutor’s Office detailed that a judge from the Naranjal Multicompetent Criminal Judicial Unit issued preventive detention against Mariana Q., the children’s stepmother, after the reformulation of charges of rape to torture.
Maicon VM, father of the infants, who received preventive detention, and also Paula V., grandmother of the minors, who benefited from alternative measures such as periodic presentation to the competent authority and prohibition of leaving the country were linked at the hearing. (I)
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