Jun
25
Mennonite imprison accused of raping hundreds of women in Bolivia
Seven of the Mennonites imprisoned, aged between 18 and 41anos, are accused of being directly responsible for lasviolaciones.
The eighth of the detainees is accused of complicity with the banda estasupuesta violators. This is another quefrecuentaba Mennonite community presuntamenteproveia as veterinarians and those accused of sleeping pills, which sold for $ 50, including contraceptive pills and Viagra, the prosecutor said.
According to Perez, in Mennonite communities, and men get to marry virgins mujeresdeben, so it is believed that the defendants induced estehombre these practices to sell susproductos.
The defense lawyer, Jose Gutierrez, Efe susclientes assured that deny the charges attributed to them, and regretted that elfiscal has mismanaged the judicial process to aplicarun inquisitorial process, namely that they have been involved quehaya without a clear truth that they are guilty.
We do not deny that there is the crime of rape, but not demonstrated that they have never been my clients, said Gutierrez.
Counsel The judge also criticized the case, as said, because women should be guided by their hormonal Losman and arrested my clients.
The defense claimed that the decision to appeal Judge in unplazo maximum of 72 hours, while claiming libertadirrestricta of the accused to defend sinpresiones and without being psychologically tortured as segunapunto ago Police.
Three other people (probably Mennonites) estanacusadas for their alleged involvement in these violations seriously, but are at large.
The prosecutor said that is not yet known the exact numerototal women were sexually assaulted, but indiciosapuntan to at least one hundred of the Mennonite community fueronvioladas, including many children between 10 and 18 years.
The alleged rapists took advantage of the evening for asus victims sleep with sleeping pills, which introduced ypuertas through the windows of their homes. Subsequently, abuse of women in these unconscious.
They have entered many homes and many of the victims have repeatedly sidovioladas. Appeared in his bed, next delmarido. They were naked and raped times (females) are peleabancon because the husband thought it was them who did it, apuntoPerez.
The defendants had long served the community menonitade Manitoba, a few hundred kilometers from the Santa Cruz, made up of descendants of German settlers from Mexico.
The Mennonites are Christian conservatives who reject any kind of sign of modernity in lifestyle, travel encarretas driven by horses, without rubber wheels, and tienenprohibido have electricity or a paved road near desu community.
In Bolivia, the communities of Mennonites are asentadasprincipalmente in the eastern departments of Santa Cruz and Beni.
EFE