In 2018, the Argentine actress Thelma Fardin , 29, publicly denounced that when she was 16 she was raped by her co-star in the youth soap opera Ugly Duckling, the actor Juan Darthés . At that time, a process began in the courts of Nicaragua, while in Argentina other stories of sexual abuse who had remained anonymous. Today, Tuesday, the trial takes place in Brazil and Darthés will be tried for aggravated rape.
Darthés was 45 years old when he would have committed the abuse. The case of Thelma Fardin is the most resonant of sexual violence in Latin American audiovisual production and the legal development is presented as a historical fact because it is the first time that three countries have participated in a case of sexual assault: Nicaragua, Argentina and Brazil.
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In her social networks, the actress highlighted how she managed to get three ministries from three countries to validate her word so that the case reaches this court. “Three public prosecutors considered that there is sufficient evidence. The fundamental thing is that justice really listens to me and does something with my testimony “, he wrote and added” I feel all the support that they give me. “
Cooperation between Nicaragua, Argentina and Brazil
Fardín denounced Darthés in Nicaragua because it indicates that the events occurred there in 2009, during the last night of the Ugly Duckling tour. Faced with the accusation, the Argentine actor escaped to Brazil , country of which you also have nationality. In April 2020, the Argentine Public Prosecutor’s Office joined the investigation and, in October of the same year, Fardín managed to get a São Paulo court to accept the case and move forward. That is why today 11 Witnesses testify remotely before Judge Ali Mazloum, including actresses Calu Rivero and Anita Co who also denounced Darthés. The first for harassment and the second for sexual abuse.
The hearing takes place in room 7 of the federal criminal justice of São Paulo and it will not be public. Martín Arias Duval, Thelma Fardin’s lawyer, explained to the Argentine media Télam that since the events denounced occurred in Nicaragua, a site that does not have an extradition agreement with Brazil, a cooperation agreement between both countries allowed the Brazilian justice to carry out the process and fulfill a possible sentence.
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For her part, Raquel Hermida Leyenda, Rivero y Co’s lawyer – the other two actresses who also raised their voices in the face of Darthés’ violence – pointed out to the same medium that “In Argentina it is a sexual abuse with carnal access in a labor context, that is, it is doubly aggravated, while in Brazil it is a reserved trial, that’s what it is called” .
Likewise, in an interview for La Nación, Hermida warned that the sentence could arrive before the end of the year. “An oral trial has evidentiary material, which I estimate will be used throughout the week” and added the following: “I estimate that before the end of the year we will have the sentence, which can be from six to thirteen years to be served in Brazil, And it will be a relief, it will really be a relief. “
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