According to a press release, issued by the Attorney General’s Office, the legal case against the former deputy minister of Youth, Odalis Ledesma Hernández, will proceed. Ledesma is accused of the rape of Canadian citizen Joanna Linda Kocsis.
He was dismissed from his post and now, by means of presidential decree 340-18 he has lost his judicial privilege and will be tried as a member of the public.
His case is now under the auspices of the National District Prosecutor and they are continuing with investigations as outlined by law.
The investigators have asked the Canadian authorities to provide the rape kit taken from the victim, Linda Joanna Kocsis that is currently at the Women’s College Hospital in Canada as well as the formal statement she gave to the Niagara Police in Canada.
The events took place on 26 June 2017 when Kocsis sent the Dominican ambassador in Canada a letter saying she had been the victim of rape by Odalis Ledesma Hernández.
Judge Solange Vasquez, of the Fourth Court of Instruction of the National District, has been assigned the case. Prosecutors have six months to present the accusations. Ledesma is out on bail.
Local prosecutors began an investigation after the Dominican Embassy in Canada reported the occurrence. The victim had sent a letter dated 26 June 2017 to the Dominican Embassy in Canada explaining the case.
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El Nacional
Noticias SIN
El Dia
CBC Canada
Nuria Piera
3 October 2018
