Around 10:15 p.m., at the corner of 9 de Octubre and Simón Bolívar boardwalk, in downtown Guayaquil, a woman stopped an informal taxi. It was November 23, 2018. The passenger was carrying cash, credit cards, a wallet, and her cell phone.
The race turned into a nightmare. The driver reached a sector of Urdesa and there he let two other subjects get on who proceeded to harass her and strip her of her belongings.
Once the act was committed, the criminals got off a few blocks later, leaving the woman alone with the driver. Then came the worst for her passenger: the driver took her to a sector of the Mapasingue hill and sexually assaulted her. After that crime, he left her abandoned on the site, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The neighbors called the National Police and the victim was taken to the Albán Borja Judicial Unit to file a complaint and receive medical attention.
Hours later, and still at the scene, she was informed of the arrest of the driver of the vehicle, whom she identified as the person responsible for the violation suffered.
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The cause of that, identified as Hamilton Jair PP, was brought to trial and this weekend received a 29-year sentence. The Court of Criminal Guarantees, made up of judges Smirnova Calderón, Guedis Cevallos and Jeovanny Suárez, accepted the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office and issued the sentence, which includes the payment of a fine of 1,066 unified basic salaries (453,050 dollars) and 5,000 dollars as comprehensive reparation to the victim.
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At the trial hearing, held between Friday March 18 and Saturday March 19, prosecutor Juan Carlos Vivar Álvarez presented seven witnesses as evidence, including arresting agents and investigators, as well as medical and psychological experts.
In addition, the medical-legal, psychological, social environment, investigative, recognition of the place and the anticipated testimony of the victim, among others, were presented.
It is the third sentence received by Hamilton Jair PP, who had previously been sentenced to two sentences of 29 years and 4 months for rape, in 2019 and 2021.
The acts were committed to different victims in the city of Guayaquil. Being a repeat offender, and once the sentences have been executed, the sentences are accumulated, which cannot exceed forty years of imprisonment.
The Prosecutor’s Office prosecuted this case for the crime of rape, which is punishable by imprisonment for up to twenty-two years, plus recidivism, provided for in article 57 of the same legal body, which increased the maximum penalty imposed in the criminal type by one third. . (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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