Overview
- The high court confirmed a sentence of 13 years and twelve months against José Ruffa Saraspe for sexually abusing minors at a Río Negro school.
- After officers could not locate him to enforce the ruling, the judiciary declared him in rebeldía and issued a national arrest warrant.
- Police are focusing the search in the interior of Tucumán, where he had been authorized to reside under periodic check-ins.
- The conviction credited 12 incidents described by seven students in Cámara Gesell interviews, covering conduct from 2017 to 2019 at Escuela N° 247 in Balsa Las Perlas.
- Prosecutors had cited flight risk while preventive detention was denied, no electronic monitoring or travel limits were imposed, and records show he missed required weekly presentations before the ruling.