Overview
- A Mendoza judge ordered pretrial detention for Eduardo Jesús Videla, 45, in a case classified as gender-based violence with counts of threats, intentional injuries, unlawful deprivation of liberty, and sexual abuse with carnal access.
- Prosecutors say the 55-year-old visitor from Ontario met Videla online months earlier and flew to Mendoza after a long-distance relationship.
- The alleged attack began after a family barbecue in Maipú on February 21, when he forced her into a car and took her to a house in Coquimbito.
- According to the complaint, he beat and spat on her, urinated on her face, forced her to ingest urine, and penetrated her with a finger.
- His sister found the woman unconscious, called 911, and police forced entry to detain Videla that night, with doctors at Hospital Lagomaggiore later documenting her injuries.