Overview

• The Cámara Nacional de Casación reversed an earlier acquittal and convicted 25-year-old Federico Benítez of “abuso sexual con acceso carnal” against a 16-year-old, finding her silence and paralysis reflected coercion rather than consent.
• A Río Tercero tribunal sentenced a 50-year-old father to 15 years and 10 months’ imprisonment for sexually abusing his five daughters between 2017 and 2023.
• Authorities in Palpalá have charged an 18-year-old with threatening, assaulting and knife-wounding a 17-year-old after she refused his advances near the bridge on calle África.
• In San Luis, police detained a 50-year-old suspect accused of drugging and raping a 15-year-old boy, who survived by sending his location to relatives.
• Ongoing probes in La Plata, Frías and Los Flores include passenger intervention in a bus groping case, a reported gang assault on a 12-year-old student and the arrest of a 36-year-old fugitive wanted for abusing his stepdaughter.