The Federal Oral Court No. 3 of San Martín decided this Thursday to sentence the influencer Yao Cabrera to four years in prison for the crime of reduction to servitude, according to the ruling accessed. There was only one victim in the case, who was constituted as a plaintiff, represented by a lawyer, with a file that began in 2020. Cabrera will remain free, as determined by Judge Nada Flores Vega, until the sentence against him becomes final. with successive confirmations.
On the other hand, the judge ordered that the influencer pay the victim compensation of 6 million pesos.
The case could have worse repercussions for the former YouTube star: the judge ordered that testimonies be sent to the UIF, Procelac, Afip and Anses to determine the existence of other possible financial and tax crimes.
According to case documents, “between December 2019 and January 2020, she hired GBDM as a video editor. For this purpose, she promised him a salary and to provide him with housing and food. However, during this period, while they lived with other people in the property on lot 125 in the San Marcos neighborhood (Escobar), Cabrera Rodríguez subjected her to precarious working conditions.”
“Specifically, long work days (more than twelve hours and sometimes an entire day without rest); there was a threat of imposition of discounts (fines) – carried out on one occasion – or expulsion if the conditions were not met (recording videos with certain people, replicating material on social networks and coexistence rules); Food was provided in poor condition and in insufficient quantities; He could only be absent from the house on Sundays as long as he had finished his work; and the promised money was never paid. Thus. Cabrera Rodríguez would have placed GBDM in a situation of servitude, taking advantage of its pre-existing vulnerability,” the text continues.
In mid-2023, professionals from the National Rescue and Support Program for Persons Harmified by the Crime of Trafficking, dependent on the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation, were entrusted with providing support and assistance to the victim. Cabrera had been prosecuted without preventive detention a year earlier, with an embargo of three million pesos and a strict prohibition on contacting the victim or approaching her.
