An Argentine judge in an unprecedented ruling has ordered financial compensation to be paid to the relatives of a young woman who was victim of the crime of human trafficking and went missing, official sources said on Tuesday.
The decision was made by a federal court in the central province Santa Fewho ordered on Tuesday the financial recovery of the father and sister of Natalia Acosta, a trafficking victim who went missing on May 29, 2009, when she was 23, in the city of Santa Fe.
“Justice recognizes for the first time the right to reparation for two indirect victims in a human trafficking case,” he said. General Defender of the Nation (DGN) in the application.
The financial compensation is to be covered by the newly established Human Trafficking Victims Direct Assistance Fund, and the family has indicated that they will use the money, for an undisclosed amount, to continue the search. Natalie Acosta.
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Acosta’s relatives were represented at the last stage of the process by the head of the DGN Program for Counseling and Promoting the Rights of Victims of the Crime of Human Trafficking, Marcela Virginia Rodriguezand auxiliary defenders Vanessa Ferrara D Mariano Rosatti.
Although at first the plaintiffs were Natalia’s parents, after the death of her mother, her representatives (Rodriguez and Rosatti) asked the court to also consider her as an indirect victim of the investigation Carmela Acostasister Natalia, for the damage caused by the disappearance of her sister.
Ariel and Carmela Acosta, Natalia’s father and sister, petitioned the court through DGN last March for compensation, a right that Argentine and international law recognizes for victims of human trafficking.
“Given that the direct victim is not present and cannot personally assert his rights, the court ruled that the implementation of the same falls on his relatives, indirect victims,” explained DGN.
According to the statement, the main person involved in the case of the disappearance of Natalia was Oswaldo Cerri, who died on April 13, 2019.
His prosecution was confirmed on the grounds that he was the one who captured Natalia Acosta in order to introduce her into a human trafficking ring.
The judge determined that the case could be reopened if new elements appeared to allow this, and ordered the search for Acosta to continue.
(EFE)
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