A National District judge Jose Alejandro Vargas ordered three months preventive custody to communicator Pablo Ross at Najayo Men’s Jail in San Cristobal. Ross Gómez is accused of sexually molesting his now 16-year old stepdaughter. As reported, when the sexual abuse would begin, the girl was but 12 years old.
Ross was arrested on the afternoon of Thursday, 20 September 2018, and has since been in detention at the Palace of Justice in the Ciudad Nueva, National District.
During the interrogation, his wife has said that he admitted to the abuse of her daughter.
The judge reached his decision after watching the questioning of the girl behind a one-way mirror (Gesell chamber) now available at the Attorney General office. This one-way mirror allows victims of sensitive crimes like interfamily violence, sexual abuse, or sexual assault to give their give their testimony before a court – without the fear, shame, and anxiety of appearing in a courthouse. Also present was the mother of the girl and her biological father.
National District prosecutors say that Ross over a period of four years had sexually abused the teenager. The girl said that Ross insisted that she not tell her mother what was going on. “He was manipulating me because he knew what I had done with my boyfriend,” the girl revealed in the Gesell Chambers interrogation. She said Ross had gotten hold of her cell phone where he found out about her relationship with her boyfriend.
Ross is a well-known communicator and over the last few years has concentrated on political commentary.
A fellow communicator, Milagros Beras, would come forward, and in a “me too” commentary on Friday, 21 September, saying that Ross had sexually harassed her when she was starting her career.
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26 September 2018
