2024-07-13 10:51:08
The 71-year-old man will therefore remain under house arrest while awaiting his sentencing, which will be announced on Friday, July 19.
The San Fernando Oral Criminal Court ruled out ordering preventive detention for Eduardo Macaya, after being found guilty of sexually abusing of two minors.
This, after the verdict against the father of the president of the UDI, Senator Javier Macaya, was announced on Wednesday for two crimes of sexual abuse, while he was acquitted of two other similar cases.
In this way, the 71-year-old man will remain under total house arrest awaiting the sentence against him, which will be revealed next Friday, July 19. and where the O’Higgins Prosecutor’s Office is requesting a sentence of 12 years in prison.
This precautionary measure was decreed during a large part of the judicial process against Eduardo Macaya, after he spent a brief preventive detention, which was lifted at the time after paying a bail of 150 million pesos.
In the run-up to the trial, Macaya reiterated his innocence and hinted that it was a kind of political persecution. for being the father of Senator Javier Macaya.
“If it weren’t for my son’s position, this case would not exist. That’s why I’m glad that this trial is starting so I can prove my complete innocence. It is more profitable to talk about the abuses of the father of a UDI senator than to investigate the facts that motivated the complaint,” the man shot.