2024-07-31 10:01:36
The San Fernando Criminal Court determined that Eduardo Macaya must wait in prison until the sentence against him becomes final.
Eduardo Macaya Zentelli will have to wait in prison until the six-year prison sentence for sexual abuse against two minors is finalized, according to a decision made this afternoon by the Oral Criminal Court (TOP) of San Fernando.
The decision was made by the court during the session in which he reviewed the precautionary measure imposed by the Court of Appeals of Rancaguafollowing a request from the lawyer of one of the victims, Hernán Fernández.
Although the San Fernando court had initially determined that Eduardo Macaya should remain in preventive detention until the sentence is finalized because he is a danger to the victims and to society, The Court of Appeals of Rancagua changedor the decision and decreed house arrest.
Prosecutor Javiera Oro explained that “we presented new information, including the administrative investigation opened by the Chilean Gendarmerie and the ruling of the Constitutional Court. Regarding this new information, The Court ordered preventive detention due to risk of flightdetermining the immediate admission of the convicted person to the Rancagua Penitentiary Center.”
In this way, the senator’s father and former president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, He must leave the house where he is being held in the commune of Placillato go to serve preventive detention in Rancagua Prison.
As ordered by the court, Eduardo Macaya’s defense has as its objective The deadline for appealing the guilty verdict is July 29 issued by the San Fernando Criminal Court.
The trial of Macaya for repeated sexual abuse
Last Friday, July 19, Eduardo Macaya He was found guilty of two cases of repeated sexual abuse against minors and sentenced to 6 years in prison.half of the sentence requested by the O’Higgins Prosecutor’s Office.
According to what was revealed by the prosecution during the trial, The agricultural businessman was accused of repeated sexual abuse against four girls under 14 years old.
LThe first complaint was received by the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the beginning of June 2023when the family of a girl under 12 years old accused Macaya Zentelli of having committed acts of sexual connotation against her.
The support that Javier Macaya gave to his father, in which he even questioned the victims and the video that was used as evidence of the abuse, It ended with his resignation as president of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI).