The fight for the first sentence of sexual violence with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world continues in the Mexican capital, despite the fact that a judge acquitted the accused of two of the eight complaints presented, the lawyer told EFE this Thursday. of the victims, Valeria Martínez Mondragón.
“We must remember that there are eight victims and we only have two, and the fact that they have not convicted does not mean that they will not be convicted for the rest of the files, rather, they are telling us what we need to go perfecting in our remaining folders,” the defender stressed.
First of all, he explained that they will appeal the acquittal sentence handed down by Judge Francisco Salazar Silva of the Reclusorio Oriente in Mexico City and, if the sentence is upheld, they would resort to an amparo.
He explained that, after Wednesday’s hearing that lasted more than five hours, the judge did not establish any responsibility for Diego ‘N’ for crimes against sexual intimacy, aggravated by the relationship of trust that existed between the students and him, because They were classmates at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).
“However, the judge warned that there are sufficient elements to prove the crime and also mentions that the girls from the Polytechnic were victims of this crime,” Martínez warned.
He regretted that, “even so, he considered that the evidence was not enough to prove Diego’s responsibility, which seems very strange because these edited photographs were found inside a device that belonged to Diego.”
In parallel to the appeal, the lawyer indicated that next Monday will be the first prosecution hearing related to another of the victims.
“It would already be the third connection hearing that would be followed against Diego for crimes against aggravated sexual intimacy,” he specified.
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In addition to this, the accused faces charges of human trafficking in the form of child pornography, a file in charge of the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, which is already awaiting oral trial.
The defender recapitulated that, after Diego’s arrest in October 2023, the Cyber Police reviewed the confiscated device to corroborate the crime committed against the IPN students, and also discovered photographs of child sexual content, for which the accused will remain in prison. .
Diego was arrested in possession of a digital tablet with real and manipulated intimate photographs of at least 1,000 women, aged between 17 and 25, as well as 166,000 AI-modified images and 20,000 videos.
Complaint of judge’s bias
The lawyer also denounced the bias of Judge Francisco Silva, who in the penultimate hearing held on November 27 allowed entry to the parents of the accused, as well as the representative of the group ‘No more innocent prisoners’, accused of harassing the victims. and silence their protests.
“This seems to us to be, in addition to being partial, it is re-victimizing because the two victims were present and one of them even told (the judge) that she did not feel comfortable with them having an audience and that is why she asked them to leave the room.” audience,” he indicated.
However, the judge responded that “the hearings are public and everyone has the right to enter,” but he did not allow the rest of the victims and their families to enter the following hearings.
Furthermore, Martínez pointed out that, upon disclosing the judge’s name, several victims contacted them to warn them of their lack of gender perspective.
“Three of them, very punctual, contacted us and told us, ‘be very careful, he is a misogynistic judge, he re-victimizes the victims a lot, he has no gender perspective, he has made me cry in the oral trials,” he explained.
Likewise, the lawyer highlighted “the total distrust in an unpunished system, in a sexist system of the local Judiciary system, which has always disappointed us, and this unfortunately was not the exception,” although she trusted that the next judges will incorporate the gender perspective in its rulings.
With information from EFE
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