Overview

• Santa Fe: a 16-year-old who escaped with her 11-month-old baby reported five years of captivity and exploitation, and three suspects were detained on charges of illegal deprivation of liberty, aggravated sexual abuse and human trafficking.
• Chaco: an 11-year-old who recently gave birth was hospitalized with signs of sexual abuse, her newborn was found alive after over 20 hours and remains in intensive care, and prosecutors detained the mother and her partner for alleged encubrimiento.
• Corrientes: a 27-year-old reported being sexually assaulted while asleep, a forensic exam found lesions compatible with an attack, and a 60-year-old suspect identified as S. A. S. was detained and charged with abuse with carnal access.
• Córdoba and Catamarca: courts issued a 12-year sentence in a plea for intrafamily abuse and a separate 13-year jury sentence for continued, gravely humiliating abuse of children, with continued detention ordered in the latter case.
• Buenos Aires province: Manuel Sebastián Velázquez, convicted to eight years for repeatedly raping his 13-year-old niece, was recaptured after four days on the run, as investigators pursue further forensic tests and potential additional complaints in several cases.