Former Uruguayan senator Gustavo Penadés returns to preventive detention for sexual crimes against minors - La Patria Newspaper

🔊 Listen to this news Former Uruguayan senator Gustavo Penadés, who in 2023 was charged as an alleged perpetrator of 22 crimes, 11 of them related to remuneration for the sexual exploitation of minors, will once again be in preventive detention. This decision was made by an Appeals Court. Last week, after a new hearing, the judge in the case had decided that Penadés should serve his sentence under house arrest. However, this ruling led the pros…

Judge Marcela Vargas had decided that the pretrial detention should be revoked but the prosecution appealed and the 4th turn Court of Appeal reversed the measure.