Global Courant 2023-05-25 20:59:10
The former participant of Big Brother, Marcelo Corazza, awaits the resolution of the Appeals Chamber: next week they will define if he returns to jail or if they uphold the decision of Judge Javier Sánchez Sarmiento to prosecute him without preventive detention only for corruption of a minor 13 years and obscene exhibitions. It will also remain to be seen if they maintain the lack of merit in the case investigating his participation in the illicit association for which three other men have already been prosecuted and arrested.
The prosecution appealed the decision of Judge Sánchez Sarmiento and this week the results of the expertise on the Telefé producer’s cell phone once again complicated his situation.
It is that two months after the 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, will deepen 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 information. money to access that material.
If so, their situation would be complicated in the face of the decision of the higher court that has access to the results of this expertise and, as they confirmed to Clarín, they should “take it into account when deciding.”
Lugones will expand the investigation and it remains to be seen if, after analyzing the new evidence, he summons him to expand his investigative statement and notify him of the accusation for other facts.
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 statements are nothing more than an expression of desire and it will depend on the judges of the Court of Appeals what will happen to him. Also what decision they make when evaluating the new evidence.
The expertise was incorporated into the file on May 18 and the judges should define after the long weekend: it is expected that next week they will issue a resolution.
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.
Another important point to be resolved by the Chamber is the competence of the National Justice in the case because after Judge Sánchez Sarmiento rejected the request of Corazza’s defense to declare the case prescribed, they asked that it be referred to Federal Justice.
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 lawn mower 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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