a radiologist who served as head of the Health area of Penal Unit No. 15 of Batán He was arrested for a sexual assault complaint carried out by two inmates: they accused him of exchanging sexual favors for medications.
The operation was carried out by the Mar del Plata DDI and prosecutor María Florencia Salas, who detained the accused, named Juan Carlos Salas (48), while he was on his way to the prison.
The man was charged with the crimes of grossly outrageous sexual abuse and sexual abusel with carnal access in at least two facts that the prosecution has proven, but that could have more cases.
According to the information published by the site The Capital of Mar del Platathe man supplied drugs or pills in exchange for sexual encounters“with a clear consent tainted by the vulnerability of the victim due to the power situation of being head of health, added to the dependency on pills that it generated,” they explained.
The detained radiologist worked in the Batán prison.
“Some statements say that the accused delivered 300 pills of rivotril or clonazepam, when it is known that there are no supplies in prison, and then the only way to access these types of drugs was if they first had some type of sexual action. Also, another type of medication that some inmates needed for purely health reasons,” a judicial source told the Mar del Plata media.
The one who first denounced the maneuver was the Provincial Memory Commission, although an execution judge later joined in. This is how the case was established in Prosecutor’s Office No. 1. There, an inmate testified via videoconference, after a habeas corpus presented by his defense.
With the statement, an operation was mounted to arrest Salas in the prison, but they had to move it forward because He left his house on his way to work and changed his route. They caught him on a corner near his home.
At the same time, a search was carried out in the cabinet inside the prison, where they found evidence that allows proving the facts, such as condoms used in the former x-ray room area to which he had access, or a lot of intimate gel in his office. A notebook and documentation were also found that the prosecutor must now analyze.
The identity of the victims was protected and it was only revealed that one of them was detained for extremely serious crimes.
