Global Courant 2023-05-31 23:57:59
Marcelo Corazza is once again in custody. The former Big Brother participant turned himself in this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Human Trafficking Division of the City Police, in Recoleta, according to police sources confirmed to Clarín.
Earlier, room 5 of the National Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber had confirmed his prosecution in a case for corruption of a child under 13 years of age and obscene exhibitions and ordered his preventive detention.
The chamber members also expanded their accusation to that of co-author of the crime of illicit association, as requested by the prosecutor, Patricio Lugones.
Corazza arrived at the police headquarters located in Suipacha at 1100, accompanied by his sisters and his lawyer, minutes after 5:00 p.m. At first, he was staying in the office of the division chief with his defender, who was the one who negotiated his delivery. The expectation was that they were going to pick him up at his house in Tigre, like in March.
From there they will transfer him to the 1C Police Station of the City Police, located on Avenida San Juan at 1700, to carry out the police file and medical examination. The last destination will be the Alcaidía 4 bis annex of the City Police, located at Avenida Vélez Sarsfield 170.
The cause
Judge Sánchez Sarmiento had resolved the lack of merit for Corazza in the accusation for illicit association and had granted the request for release for the crime of corruption of minors. However, the results of the expertise on the Telefé producer’s cell phone again complicated his situation.
It is that two months after the first arrest of Corazza, the computer experts presented a report made on the cell phone of the winner of the first broadcast of the Big Brother reality show.
Photos and videos with sexual content, as well as chats with other alleged victims, were the main elements found on the device. Thus, Patricio Lugones, from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor No. 26, advanced on this line of investigation to identify the people involved, determine if they were children or adolescents at the time of the conversations and if there was an exchange of money. to access that material.
That evidence was available to the appeals chamber, but not to Judge Sánchez Sarmiento at the time of making the decision. Upon analysis of the new evidence, he could expand his investigative statement and notify him of the charge for new facts.
However, the chamber resolved the question of competence and, as it was a crime against the integrity of children and adolescents, referred it to Federal justice. Once Corazza’s arrest and charges are resolved, they will have to bypass a new court to continue with the investigation.
Corazza had told a cell phone from the Intruders program, installed at the door of his house, that “there is no chance” that he will return to jail. On the advice of his lawyers, he decided not to speak in relation to the case, although his words were no more than an expression of desire and now he will return to jail, at least until it is determined whether or not he is guilty of the crimes charged.
The cell phone expertise was incorporated into the file on May 18 and the chambermaids were expected to define their situation this week.
Judicial sources consulted by Clarín confirmed that the investigation for these two possible new victims will be carried out within the framework of the same case for corruption of children under thirteen years of age and obscene exhibitions and illicit association, then it will depend on federal justice how the investigation continues.
The cause
On March 22, Corazza was arrested along with Francisco Angelotti (46), Andrés Charpenet (53) and Ignacio Mermet (53) accused of being part of a network that recruited children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 to later manipulate them, abuse them and force them to have sex with other adults in exchange for monetary compensation.
Angelotti was placed as the leader of the gang and Charpenet and Mermet would participate in the manipulation and extortion of the boys. Trips, clothes, gifts and money would be some of the elements offered to the boys to convince them to submit to the abuse. To those who also threatened to keep silent.
Francisco Rolando Angelotti Notarbartolo, accused of being the leader of the gang. Photo File
Angelotti transferred the children from Misiones, where he lives, to Buenos Aires to submit them to the network of pedophiles.
One of the victims dared to denounce after seeing Corazza in a television program linked to the latest edition of Big Brother. It was in October 2022 when she approached the Prosecutor for Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons (Protex) and recounted the abuses to which he was subjected between 1999 and 2002 when he was between 11 and 13 years old. She also pointed to other children who were co-opted by the same gang.
The prosecution refers to eight boys, although they could only identify three, of which two declared. Meanwhile, three other victims were individualized, but could not determine their identity.
Francisco Rolando Angelotti Notarbartolo is prosecuted with pretrial detention for the crimes of illicit association, human trafficking aggravated by the number of victims, perpetrated against minors under 18 years of age and taking advantage of their vulnerable situation, continued sexual abuse with seriously outrageous carnal access, perpetrated against minors under 13 years of age, promotion of prostitution of minors under 18 years of age, child pornography and corruption of minors under 13 years of age, all of them in real competition with each other, that is, they occurred at the same time.
Raúl Ignacio Mermet, alias “Nacho”, is the owner of a lawnmower company and a friend of Angelotti’s school. He was prosecuted for the same offense as Angelotti, except for possession of recorded child abuse (popularly known as child pornography).
Charpenet is also considered part of the illicit association that Justice is investigating, as a co-perpetrator of the same crimes but against minors under 18 years of age.
The complaint against Corazza
Corazza was accused of a single act, although they are investigating whether there was not a second abuse.
According to the prosecution to which Clarín agreed, a young man denounced: “One day (after 2001), the defendant (Rolando) Angelotti Notarbartolo was with victim 1 and 3 (NdR: the identity of the complainants has been preserved). He told him to the first one who had someone who wanted to meet him”. That child would have refused the meeting but his abuser ended up “convincing” him to attend.
By then, the abuse had developed in such a way that the boy thought he had “fallen in love.” “He generated a bond of submission in which his decision-making capacity was annulled because today, being an older person, he understands that he would never have felt attracted to him,” described Sánchez Sarmiento.
Marcelo Corazza in 2001, after winning Big Brother. Photo Eugenio Peralta / File
It was in this context that he managed to take him and the person identified as victim 3, a schoolmate of the first, so they could meet a person.
Angelotti took them in a car to Plaza Miserere, where he parked next to another vehicle. On the other side, the brand new winner of the first edition of Big Brother (in 2001) opened the window, in one of his most popular moments.
“Victim 1 was attracted to the situation since he had recently been the winner of the reality show. This led him to go overboard,” they said. What follows afterwards is the account of a situation of abuse. A car in between, on the Costanera Sur, Angelotti was waiting for him with another of the boys knowing what was happening inside that car.
In addition, after the investigative statement, the victims would have placed Corazza in a “parking lot” where a group of adults “surrounded” the two boys and where they were subjected to what they described as a “group sex party,” although Sánchez Sarmiento He indicated that he should delve into the testimonies about this event to investigate Corazza again for that fact.
One of the key points in the victim’s testimony is that she accurately described the make and color of the car in which Corazza committed the abuses. Later, they were able to verify it with the car registration: he had the blue Citroën in that year, the same one that the victim detailed.
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