He head of health of the Batán prison complex was arrested in the last hours accused of sexually abuse at least two prisoners in exchange for providing them with drugs. Is about Juan Carlos Salasa 48 year old radiologist that this noon refused to testify before the prosecutionaccording to sources in the case Infobae.
Salas was arrested this Thursday afternoon by the Mar del Plata DDI when he was leaving his home. Simultaneously, the troops raided Penitentiary Unit 15, within the framework of a case being carried out by the prosecutor. María Florencia Salashead of the Functional Instruction Unit No. 1 of Mar del Plata.
The suspect spent the night in a police station in the city of Balcarce and this morning he was transferred to the Courts for investigation, charged with the crimes of grossly outrageous sexual abuse and sexual abuse with carnal knowledge. In front of the prosecutor he opted for silence and after the hearing he was transferred back to the police station. He will continue to be under arrest while investigators continue to collect evidence, since the deadlines for the preventive detention request began to run.
The criminal complaint in the case was filed a month ago by the Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM), which learned of the facts during an inspection carried out in its capacity as the Local Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and appeared in the case as a private institutional victim after interviewing one of the victims.
According to the testimonies found in the file, the head of Health exercised a relationship of power over the victims. Taking advantage of the addiction symptoms of the detained people, he gave them money or medications illegally and at his discretion in exchange for a sexual relationship..
The CPM highlighted that the prisoners were victims of sexual harassment and abuse, and agreed that These events generally occurred in the healthcare area when they required medical assistance due to a crisis episode in their mental health condition..
One of the complainants reported that, on some occasions and outside of any prescription, Salas gave him between two and up to five boxes of psychotropic drugs.who suffered frequent harassment and even received messages with sexual requests.
In this sense, in the presentation of the criminal complaint, the CPM indicated that there was a “routine and systematic action consisting of causing harassment, sexual abuse and illegally supplying medication to people in treatment and deprived of their liberty.”
In the addiction treatment process, “the illegal and discretionary supply of medication and drugs by the accused had the intention of causing serious physical and mental pain and suffering in order to obtain an advantage, intimidating and putting at risk the comprehensive health of people,” the organization considered.
For now, two events are investigated. However, in the complaint there is talk of a generalized situation. Likewise, due to the number of people who testified and the seriousness of the crimes investigated, the CPM pointed out that “it is unlikely that the prison complex officials were not aware of what was happening; much less, because to assist the health sector, a team must be ordered to transfer the detained people.”
Given the suspicion of other cases, the Justice Department enabled a communication line to make new complaints.
On the other hand, it must still be investigated whether Salas supplied psychotropic drugs to the detainees only in exchange for obtaining a sexual relationship or also so that they could be sold within the pavilions.
