Paraguayan police surprised by announcing the recapture of a man identified as a serial rapist. Thanks to international cooperation with the Argentine Federal Police and Interpol, he was detained again.
What happened so that he was recaptured…had he escaped? No, the information Infobae published was that Luis Héctor Morínigo Cantero, an Argentine national, “was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping several women at gunpoint, after being captured in 2010. He served 13 years of that sentence thrown to Argentina However, sources in the case say the expulsion was accidental, in a curious series of events.
The assault cases occurred in Paraguay, where, according to the Police from that country, Luis Héctor Morínigo was arrested “by the Paraguayan judiciary for the alleged criminal act against sexual autonomy (sexual coercion and rape) and criminal act against property (aggravated theft).”
The recapture of the man identified as a serial rapist was known from Argentina on Monday, July 10, 2023. He was apprehended in La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province.
Paraguay demanded it and processed a red circular for the crime of aggravated sexual abuse, the media said.
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The Story of Luis Hector Morinigo
On ABC, they reported that Justice Minister Daniel Banítez has “raised that an extradition request will be filed as he has been deported from the country after being released from prison”.
The sexual abuse cases for which he was imprisoned occurred in the city of Itá, Paraguay. 13 years ago, they handed down a verdict that kept him behind bars for three decades. But he regained his freedom and, as stipulated by law, “was expelled from the country”.
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How the serial rapist got out of prison
The reason that got him out of Tacumbú Prison is more than controversial, unusual. Deputy Minister of Criminal Justice, Leticia Sanabria, in conversation with the Paraguayan news channel ABC TV, Infobae reported, stated “that Morínigo Cantero’s 30-year prison sentence did not show up in the police computer system and so he was released.”
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The Justice Department reported last May, according to La Tribuna, that it had “fired 9 officials from Tacumbú prison for the mistaken release of a serial rapist; while a court had ordered the convict’s recapture.
Morínigo Cantero was in prison for three cases and served two sentences, with the last one missing. The latter case was not included in the record and that is where the error occurred.
Officials according to La Tribuna newspaper
The serial rapist is currently expected to be extradited to Paraguay, where he must be detained by court order until 2040.
For the justice minister, Infobae reported, “it’s hard to talk about any kind of payment as the detainee doesn’t have the economic capacity to offer gifts to officials.”
Previously, Benítez acknowledged that they need to update the Justice Department computer system and that it is not a fact that happens often, according to the same outlet, Benítez said: “I think it was an involuntary human error. Someone has not uploaded the vacancy or has lost it”.
Source: Eluniverso
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