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The Penitentiary Service had advised against parole, but they granted it anyway. The new victim is 11 years old.
A man who spent the last 13 years in a Misiones penal unit serving a sentence for rape was released for just 38 days, since he was once again denounced for a sexual assault, this time against an 11-year-old girl, daughter of your partner.
A Posadas Court decided to grant him conditional release in April despite the fact that specialists from the Misiones Penitentiary Service advised against it.
This is Jorge Miguel Gerula (51), who is also facing a third criminal case because a few days ago he escaped from a cell at the Alba Posse police station, although a few hours later he was located again and transferred to a criminal unit.
The judicial panorama appears very complicated for Gerula. It is a fact that the Justice will annul his probation and, in case of being convicted of the abuse of his stepdaughter, he will be considered a repeat offender.
This implies that he must serve the little more than five years that remained pending from the first sentence, plus the one decided by the judges in the two new cases he is facing.
Gerula had been arrested for kidnapping and sexual abuse with carnal access in September 2009. Criminal Court 1 of Posadas sentenced him to 18 years in prison and ordered that he be transferred to the Loreto Criminal Unit.
The sentence expired in 2027, but when serving two thirds, he requested parole.
It was then that the judges asked the Penitentiary Service for a report to find out if he was in a position to rejoin society.
The inmate was already in the so-called trust phase: he had a good behavior inside the prison, he enjoyed temporary releases, he had adapted to work in the carpentry sector and received visits from his relatives, to such an extent that a cousin offered to help him. put him up when he was released.
However, when the time came for the psychological report, the person in charge of the Criminal Service advised against his conditional release and asked that he be kept for a while longer with temporary releases to continue evaluating him.
In interviews, Gerula was reluctant to answer questions related to the crime that landed him in prison. To such an extent that he only said that it was due to abuse, without giving further details.
For psychologists, the man showed negativity to resolve conflicts and found it difficult to rethink the conduct that deprived him of his freedom for more than a decade.
Despite this, Criminal Court 1 advanced with probation and the abuser returned to the streets on April 20 to settle in the town of Alba Posse with a woman who said she was his partner. In that place, he was arrested again on May 28, again for the abuse of his stepdaughter.
Last week, Gerula and another prisoner escaped from the police station, but a few hours later they were recaptured in a rural area. Now, in a dungeon, he waits for Justice to move forward with the two new accusations, and with the certainty that his stay in a prison this time will be even longer.
EMJ
