The Attorney General Office reports that the Second Collegiate Court of Duarte province sentenced businessman Diógenes Ferreira to 15 years in prison. He was found guilty of sexually abusing a female minor in the northeastern city of San Francisco de Macorís.
He was sentenced for violating the Dominican Criminal Code, modified by Law No. 24-97 on Gender and Domestic Violence, the Code for the Protection and Fundamental Rights of Children and Adolescents (Law No. 136-03) and Law No. 631-16 on Arms, Ammunition and Related Materials.
The case file established that the convicted man had brought the victim several times to a farm owned by him. He bought her a cell phone so that they could communicate. The investigation revealed the victim was sexually abused by the man since she was 10 years old.
The magistrates Massiel Sánchez and Gladys Germán, after the denunciation, initiated the local investigations and after obtaining the corresponding evidence the Public Ministry proceeded to request the corresponding arrest warrant against the accused.
The file indicates that the man attempted suicide when the Police went to arrest him. He was ordered to serve his sentence in the Vista al Valle Jail of San Francisco de Macorís.
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El Nuevo Diario
14 November 2019