Overview
- Ángel Javier Panelo, 50, worked as an ambulance driver at the Navy-run Hospital Naval Puerto Belgrano in Buenos Aires province.
- The Tribunal en lo Criminal Nº 2, presided over by Judge María Mercedes Rico, issued the conviction after an oral trial in Bahía Blanca.
- Prosecutors proved he placed submission drugs in drinks before the assaults, a pattern he admitted carried out across separate encounters.
- The court found him guilty of one count of sexual abuse with carnal access and two counts of sexual abuse with carnal access with theft.
- The attacks occurred in Coronel Rosales on June 13, 2019, between September 25–26, 2020, and on September 23, 2023, with the prosecutor seeking 22 years and the defense arguing for a minimum term.