Judge Marcela Vargas accepted the requests of the prosecutor in the case, Alicia Ghione, and added other charges against the former senator.

In addition to the twenty sex crimes and two public corruption charges previously charged against him, he also received repeated offenses of indecent assault, repeated rape, and repeated corruption of minors.

The new victims emerge from the latest advance statements, and one is the person who testified for the book “Gustavo Penadés. Two Faces of a Man with Power” by journalists Carolina Delisa and Martín Tocar.

In mid-April, the new victims had testified at an advance hearing.

Penadés was charged on October 10, 2023, with pretrial detention for 22 sexual offenses against minors.

On February 5, 2025, the court ordered him to be placed under house arrest and fitted with an electronic anklet, but a week later, an appeals court overturned the decision, and the former legislator was returned to prison.

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