The Brazilian justice revoked the first instance ruling and declared actor Juan Darthés guilty of rape.
He sentenced him to six years in prison for statutory rape in the case initiated by the actress Thelma Fardin.
The judges announced in a virtual hearing that they revoked the acquittal in the first instance and handed down the sentence for the crime of sexual abuse with carnal access.
The sentence that Darthés must face will be in an open regime; that is to say, He will be able to work but he must return to sleep in prison every night.
Darthés was denounced in December 2018 by the actress, who stated that she was sexually abused in Nicaragua during a tour of Patito Feo (2006-2008), when she was a minor.
The actor of Sweet love and The rich don’t ask permission, who always claimed to be innocent, traveled to Brazil, where he is from, and the trial continued in that country.
The trial against Dartés had begun on November 30, 2021, two years after Fardin denounced him for aggravated sexual abuse. He accused him of sexual abuse in 2009, during a tour in Nicaragua of the Argentine soap opera “Patito Feo”, when both were part of the cast. She was 16 years old and the actor was 45.
“Amnesty International recognizes that this decision is a firm step in the construction of a justice that condemns sexual violence against children and gender violence, and, with this, sends a message to the girls and women of Argentina and Latin America, that they can trust the system of administration of justice and be encouraged to report,” the organization stated.
Trial chronology
TO mid 2019, Nicaragua required the opening of a criminal process against the actor for considering him the direct perpetrator of the crime of aggravated rape. So, The case was taken by the Federal Public Ministry of San Pablo. It was the final stretch of the trial, since there were two hearings left before the verdict.
In an Instagram post, Fardin had expressed that year: “From the first day of the trial against him for sexual abuse, Darthés stated that he wants ‘the truth to be known.’ But the truth is that First he escaped from justice in Nicaragua and now that he cannot avoid trial in Brazil his strategy is to suspend it“.
The judicial process, in which three countries participated – Argentina, Brazil and Nicaragua – had 11 witnesses, who testified virtually.
In February 2023Amnesty International announced that The Brazilian Superior Court had rejected “an appeal presented by the actor Juan Darthés” to stop the process against him and detailed that he had decided to validate “the jurisdiction of the federal courts of San Pablo, where the oral trial has been taking place since November 2021.”
However, in May the justice of the neighboring country had decided to acquit the actor. the one represented by him. A little over a year later, this Monday lThe Brazilian justice system overturned the first instance ruling and sentenced Darthés to six years in prison.
