2024-07-26 10:53:59
While awaiting the execution of his sentence, Eduardo Macaya will no longer be in preventive detention but will spend this time at home.
The Court of Appeals of Rancagua revoked the preventive detention of Eduardo Macaya, sentenced to six years in prison for two cases of repeated sexual abuse against minors under 14 years of age, and replaced it with house arrest.
This measure had been imposed on the father of the president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, by the Oral Court of San Fernando awaiting the “fulfillment” of the sentence.
Thus, last Friday Eduardo Macaya arrived at the Rancagua prison to serve his preventive detention, ordered by the court due to possible “risk of flight.”
In its resolution, The Court of Appeals indicated that “the mere circumstance of having communicated the conviction sentence does not justify imposing effective preventive detention, because although the conviction is higher than the material assumptions, this does not necessarily change the need for caution, since it does not account for an increase in the risk of flight, since the sentence imposed by the court is within the probable sentences that were already taken into consideration at the time of replacing preventive detention with bail, which, moreover, has not yet become final.”
For its part, The plaintiff’s lawyer, Hernán Fernández, questioned the statements of Senator Javier Macaya (UDI), who reiterated his father’s innocence and claimed that the videos used as evidence against him were edited.
“He is wrong, there are several videos, abundant, multiple, compelling evidence, which led to the verdict. Saying that the video is edited is an irresponsible statement, covering up the sun with a finger (…) we will not accept that he tries to judge a victim and deny the facts,” Fernández told radio Cooperativa.