Justice  of Peace charged with rape of a minor

 A Justice of the Peace is in preventive detention charged with carnal abuse of a minor, in the form of aggravated rape.

The hearing was held on Holy Saturday, April 16 and, according to reports from the Public Ministry, the alleged act occurred on Holy Tuesday, April 12, in the district of Muna in the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous region.

According to the prosecution, the official presumably abused the minor through violence and intimidation, for which he was taken to the hearing before a guarantee judge.

Right at the guarantee control hearing, the Municipal Personería was able to order the most severe precautionary measure, of provisional detention while the investigation lasts.

Kathy Hernández, personera  of Tolé, supported before the Judge of Guarantees, elements of conviction that accredit the criminal case and the presumed link with the accused, which allowed the requests to legalize the arrest, the imputation of the criminal charge and the application of the most serious precautionary measure, in this case, provisional detention, when considering the seriousness of the act and the risk to the victim and her next of kin