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Ángeles Rawson, 10 years old: Jorge Mangeri studies in prison but his concept is terrible
The doorman, sentenced to life for the crime of the 16-year-old girl, is housed in a quiet pavilion, where he does cleaning tasks. He began his career in Social Work, but they say that he does not comply with the treatment courses for “sex offenders.”
Ángeles Rawson was 16 years old and was murdered by Jorge Mangeri, the doorman of the building where the family lived, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
Virginia Messi
“You guys don’t really care what I have to say, so thank you very much and sorry to bother you.” With an annoyed tone, Jorge Mangeri (55) rejected any possibility of speaking with Clarín and immediately cut off the communication established through the public telephone in pavilion C of Module 1 of the Ezeiza I Penitentiary Complex.
There, the former doorman of the Ravignani 2360 building (in Palermo) is serving his life sentence for the femicide of Ángeles Rawson (16), which occurred on June 10, 2013, exactly 10 years ago.
In prison he is a fajinero, he cleans the pavilion and, for this reason, in his last retirement contributions the Technical and Financial Cooperation Entity of the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) appears as an employer. His visits are on Sundays.
“Mumi” and a very special T-shirt, which her mother found and which the young woman had made with her nickname and with sequins, shortly before she died.
Ángeles’ body was found in the Ceamse area of José León Suárez, after spending a day missing and when the case already had the entire country on edge. Photo: DIEGO WALDMANN
What is strange is that in the commercial databases his tax address is still the building on Ravignani street, the same one where the murder took place, as if part of his story had been frozen there.
“Ravignani” was the place where Mangeri worked as a doorman and Ángeles lived with his family: his mother Jimena Adúriz, then 48 years old, his stepfather Sergio Opatowski (55) and two of his two younger brothers, Axel (16, son of Sergio) and Juan Cruz (19). Jerónimo (25), the eldest, had already moved to live alone.
In a decade, Mangeri did not change his position as a victim, as a man misunderstood and unfairly framed. They say that behind bars he remains a reserved man.
None of all this had and does not have the slightest support in the reality of the file, a case full of prosecution evidence that led to a forceful conviction in July 2015, first confirmed by Chamber II of Cassation (in June 2017) and finally in the Supreme Court of Justice in 2018.
Mangeri killed Angeles. And she did it because the 16-year-old girl resisted being raped. The Oral Criminal Court No. 9 sentenced him to life imprisonment for the crimes of femicide in ideal competition with sexual abuse and aggravated homicide for the commission of his crime. Thus was closed, at least on paper, a case that shocked Argentine society like few before or since.
The court case was closed. From the family of Ángeles we have news about the courageous fight of her mother to preserve her memory and support people who go through the hell that she had to suffer.
After several hours of hypotheses and rumors, the case took an absolute turn and the doorman of the building where “Mumi” lived became the center of the scene. CLARIN ARCHIVE
Mangeri’s life in prison
But what is Mangeri doing today?
The question is very morbid, but the answer that Clarín found is interesting.
To begin with, Mangeri, in addition to his task as fajinero in the pavilion (a relatively quiet place in the prison, which he shares with 50 other inmates), began to study Social Work through the Ezeiza University Center (CUE), which depends on the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
As is the rule in the SPF’s progressive regime, two items are evaluated every three months: “conduct” and “concept”. And this is where his grades, at first glance, seem strange. As this newspaper was able to find out, Mangeri had “10” of conduct and “1” of concept in the first quarter of the year.
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How can this be possible?
Clarín spoke with specialists who gave a simple example: “conduct” is easy to comply with, it is simply submitting to the rules, like never missing school… it is an evaluation of objective data.
The case went to trial with Mangeri as the only defendant and, after five months, in July 2015 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 9 of the Federal Capital. DYN/ALBERTO RAGGIO
The “concept”, on the other hand, requires a more complex and subjective analysis in which qualifications from the different areas of the Prison Council come into play: labor, education, social assistance, medicine and the criminology service.
In this evaluation, those with the width of swords are those of criminology, their vote is worth much more than the rest. This is the area in which the programs and workshops that the inmate has to do to complete the evolution process with a view to his social reintegration are drawn up.
This is where Mangeri’s concept is terrible: he has a 1. And those who know life behind the walls believe that the same thing happens to the doorman as to other sexual offenders: due to strategy (to live more calmly) or denial, they do not attend to the workshops that have been scheduled for them and that collapses their qualification.
Perhaps not accepting psychological assistance as a rapist will make life a little easier for him in prison, where sexual offenders are not the most popular prisoners, but the truth is that in his case there are no doubts, none: Jorge Mangeri killed Ángeles Rawson in the middle of a sexual assault.
He did it after she resisted being raped. Later, to hide what happened and erase all traces of her crime, she threw the body in the trash but -in a rather miraculous way- it appeared and not only that, the DNA of her murderer was found on Angeles’ index finger . She pointed it out.
According to the calculation of his sentence, the former goalkeeper will only have his sentence exhausted in 2048 when, at the age of 80, when he turns 35 behind bars.
The only chance he has to get out of prison early is that when he reaches 70 years in 2038, he asks from that year to serve the last decade of his sentence in home prison.
“Mangeri has to serve until the last day of his sentence, but I forgave him,” Jimena Adúriz said in recent years on each anniversary of her daughter’s femicide. Photo: LUCIA MERLE
Ángeles Rawson’s parents: Franklin Rawson, with a brooch in memory of his daughter, and Jimena Adúriz leave the Palace of Courts after learning of Mangieri’s life sentence. Photo: ANDRES D’ELIA
But to achieve that, he will necessarily have to raise the 1 that he has as a concept and that indicates that, at least today, he is a long way from being able to reintegrate into society.
The case that shook the country
On June 10, 2013, at 9:50 a.m., Ángeles arrived at Ravignani 2360, but did not enter his apartment because he ran into Mangeri in the hall.
For the Justice, with some deceit, the man took the girl to a place in the building -for the prosecution it was the basement and for the complaint, the eighth floor goal-, where he started a sexual attack that, due to the resistance of the victim, ended in homicide.
A medical board concluded that Ángeles died of strangulation and suffocation in no more than five minutes and that her murderer also fractured five ribs, her right clavicle and a vertebra.
Jimena Adúriz, eight years after the crime of Ángeles, in her house and with the memories of “Mumi”. She no longer lives in the building where her daughter’s murder occurred. FACEBOOK
Although the rape was not consummated, the victim had paragenital lesions on one of her knees, in the groin, and on the inner side of her thighs, which proved that she had suffered abuse.
According to the sentence, Mangeri tied up and conditioned the corpse of the adolescent inside garbage bags and then disposed of it in a garbage container, which is why the next day it was found on the Ceamse property in José León Suárez.
As the investigation first pointed to the girl’s family environment, Mangeri took the opportunity to sow false leads and threw the notebook that the victim had in her backpack in General Paz y Balbín.
He also caused burns on his skin to cover the marks left by Ángeles’ attempts to defend himself. When they summoned him to testify as a witness, he denounced alleged torture by the Police so that he would incriminate himself.
Sergio Opatowski, Adúriz’s partner, was one of the first to be identified as possibly responsible for the event. He was quickly out of suspicion. DYN/PABLO AHARONIAN
“Some policemen put me in a patrol car and stung me,” he warned and showed the wounds without being asked. Then came the unexpected confession before the prosecutor Paula Asaro, at 5 in the morning of that Saturday, June 15, 2013, five days after the murder:
“I am responsible for Ravignani 2360. It was me”. It was the only time he admitted to being the murderer.
At the trial he denied it. “I am innocent. I did not have and do not have anything to do with the death of ‘Mumi’,” he assured.
The key evidence against him was the DNA match that determined that the goalkeeper’s genetic profile was found under the nail of the index finger of Ángeles’ right hand, which proved that he scratched it in a defensive attempt.
In addition, Mangeri had 34 injuries, of which more than 20 were scratches that had been masked by burns.
Cecilio Antonio Saettone (60), Mangeri’s cousin, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for “false witness”. At the time of the crime, he was a non-commissioned officer of the Buenos Aires Police and advised the doorman to invent the alleged torture. The sentence was suspended and he never went to jail.
For the goalkeeper there are no pending court decisions. His life is governed by the “report card” completed every three months by the Federal Penitentiary Service. And for now, he is not doing well.
Mangeri is being held in the Ezeiza prison: he will only be able to request house arrest in 2038, at the age of 70, and his conditional release, in the year 2048, at the age of 80. TÉLAM
