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.