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Taekwondo Instructor Arrested on Multiple Sexual Abuse Charges

Gathering testimony from five victims, prosecutors will question Hernández under ‘Abuso sexual gravemente ultrajante’ as they search for additional survivors.

Overview

  • Police detained 56-year-old instructor Alejandro Alberto Hernández late Monday in his Isidro Casanova apartment after Judge Carina Andrijasevich issued an arrest warrant.
  • Hernández faces charges of “abuso sexual gravemente ultrajante” for alleged assaults on minors spanning 2013 to 2021, including his niece and four of his students.
  • Prosecutor Roxana Castelli led the inquiry that secured testimonies from five victims, one of whom first filed a complaint in 2023 recounting abuses beginning at age seven.
  • Agents from the DDI of La Matanza and the Policía Bonaerense’s gender-violence unit carried out covert surveillance at Los Andes al 1900 before making the arrest.
  • Hernández remains in custody awaiting formal interrogation as authorities anticipate new complaints and continue to probe the case.