Overview
- A popular jury in Paraná found police agents Samuel Enrique Morel and Ezequiel Alejandro García guilty for the 2016 abuse of two girls aged 13 and 15.
- Jurors deemed García the author of aggravated sexual abuse with carnal access committed by police personnel, and Morel a necessary participant.
- Both defendants were ordered into preventive detention at Unidad Penal 1 in Paraná pending the February 20 audiencia de cesura before Judge Alejandro Cánepa.
- The assault was located on July 5, 2016 in a train car used as a guard post on the grounds of Paraná’s former station, involving girls housed at the COPNAF-run Residencia Mujercitas.
- The case advanced over nearly a decade through dismissals, abbreviated pleas for other officers in 2017, and a 2020 ruling that nullified part of the original accusation against Morel.