2024-07-31 05:46:01
The San Fernando Court granted the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, given the new information provided on the benefits received by Macaya in the Rancagua prison.
The San Fernando Criminal Court of First Instance placed Eduardo Juan Macaya Zentilli in preventive detention, who is awaiting the completion of his six-year prison sentence for two crimes of sexual abuse of minors under 14 years of age.
The court unanimously ordered the precautionary measure Considering that there is a risk of Macaya fleeing, Following the new information presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, which revealed that unjustified differential treatment, while he was held in the Rancagua Penitentiary Center.
The ruling stated that “the court considered as undisputed facts, the admission to preventive detention and the stay of the convicted person (Eduardo Macaya) in the prison hospital until the time of his release. The aforementioned stay in the hospital, although it may be necessary, is exceptional and therefore there must be precise and sufficient justification, especially if one considers that it occurs in the penitentiary environment characterized by its rigorous regulations.”
The San Fernando Criminal Court stated that “the sentenced person’s stay in an exceptional regime was not justified, the possibility of violating the rules of the penitentiary regime, characterized by being strict and of restricted application, can be noted. This possibility increases if the National Gendarmerie Directorate is considering the instruction of a summary.”
“The situation described must be strictly assessed from the perspective of the risk of flight, and that is why obtaining differential treatment, not objectively justified, within the body responsible for criminal custody, The risk of escape increases, especially considering the current regime of house arrest, since the control of this is not permanent,” he sentenced.