Overview
- Jurors found César Sena guilty as the perpetrator and his parents, Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña, guilty as primary participants, with three collaborators convicted of cover‑up and one defendant acquitted.
- The 12-member jury reached a unanimous decision after more than 24 hours of deliberations, as required by Argentina’s jury law.
- Under the legal classifications, life imprisonment applies, but specific penalties will be set at a forthcoming juicio de cesura, and defense teams have announced appeals.
- Presiding judge Dolly Fernández linked the outcome to social fatigue with local political protection and noted longstanding misuse of state resources surrounding the family.
- After the verdict, the convicted met under a prison family-reunification program, crowds marched in Resistencia, and prosecutors’ forensic theory cited 3 to 12 hours of burning to explain the condition of the remains.