2024-09-15 17:49:45
The trial against the women accused of stealing bread will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, September 11, in Freirina.
The event is scheduled for this Wednesday, September 11th. Trial begins against two women in pretrial detention accused of stealing bread from a children’s home in nunin the Atacama Region.
According to reports, both are food handlers and were charged with the alleged subtraction of ten loaves intended for consumption by minors living in the home, which is managed by the municipality, according to the mayor of Freirina, César Orellana.
Although the communal leader stated that “They were fresh, not stale breads for the children who live in the residence.“, also stated that “The judge exaggerated with the decision to send them to jail“.
However, Mayor Orellana also assured that the bread was not the only thing that the women stole from their workplace and, he said, although the complaint “focuses on the bread, the accounts of several witnesses They report the theft of other foods and supplies, such as meat, cheese, snacks, blankets, slippers, among others.“.
“This is not an isolated robbery, but rather a series of thefts that occurred systematically. in time,” said the mayor of Freirina.
Why the accused are in preventive detention
The preventive detention for the two women accused of stealing bread in Freirina did not go unnoticed by the harsh precautionary measure that was adopted against both.
In this regard, the chief prosecutor of Freirina, Jorge Hernández, justified the measure by recalling that None of the accused appeared at the hearing in which the precautionary measures were discussed.
“These people were notified of the trial and did not attend. In accordance with article 141 of the Criminal Procedure Code, his arrest was ordered“, the persecutor explained.
As context, to explain what the court decided, prosecutor Hernandez announced that “The defense attorney did not attend the hearing, which worsened the situation of the accused.“.
Furthermore, they flatly denied any connection with the theft of the loaves, so they not only refused to pay a fine, but They ruled out the holding of a summary trialwhich would have involved them admitting that they had committed the crime.