2024-08-15 11:47:07
However, his lawyer César Ramos stated that the doctor is not a fugitive, but is waiting for a response to his request to be admitted to the Punta Arenas prison.
Oncologist Manuel Alvarez Zenteno, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for repeated sexual abuse, He is a fugitive from justice, for which reason an arrest warrant was issued against him..
The former head of Oncology at Clínica las Condes He was sentenced on May 10 to a prison sentence for sexually abusing two patients. who were receiving cancer treatment.
This is in addition to the sentence that Manuel Alvarez received in 2019 of 818 days in prison for sexual abuse against other patients, La Tercera reported.
After being sentenced last May, the oncologist was placed in preventive detention in Casablanca prison, but his defense managed to modify the precautionary measure, leaving him under house arrest.
But on August 6, an arrest warrant was issued against Manuel Alvarez, who is currentlyHe is being sought by officers from the Sexual Crimes and Minors Brigade (Brisexme) of the PDI of Santiago and Punta Arenas to take him to the former Penitentiary to serve his sentence.
However, his lawyer César Ramos stated that the doctor is not a fugitive, but is waiting for a response to his request to be admitted to the Punta Arenas prison.
“My client is not a fugitive, the Public Prosecutor’s Office knows that his address has been in Punta Arenas for two months. and we are only waiting for the feasibility report so that he can begin serving his sentence in the Magallanes prison,” said the lawyer.