UC’s Legal Clinic adds two new rulings in recent weeks for cases of serious crimes
The cases are added to the four convictions achieved in March, April and May by the Unit’s Children’s Area. Fifth year students participated in the team, led by the teacher María Elena Santibáñez.
The two new cases were also carried out by the multidisciplinary team of the Children’s Area of the Legal Clinic, a unit that is financed solely with external contributions. Credits: Karina Fuenzalida.
In recent weeks, the UC Law School Legal Clinic has achieved two other results in cases of serious crimes of a violent nature, in addition to the four convictions achieved during March, April and May .
The two new cases were also carried out by the multidisciplinary team of the Children’s Area of the Legal Clinic.
In the first of these cases, the Puente Alto Criminal Oral Trial Court convicted the defendant and accused aggressor of the represented, for the repeated crime of sexual abuse of a person under 14 years of age. The verdict considered the aggravating circumstance that the victim is the defendant’s granddaughter.
On the other hand, in a process of domestic violence, the Children’s Area team assumed the representation of a woman and her son who for several years suffered attacks by the defendant, spouse and father of the victims, respectively.
The process culminated in a conditional suspension in which the defendant undertook, among other things, not to approach them for two years; to completely relinquish personal care of the child; to allow her mother to travel with her son outside the country; and to ask them for a public apology, acknowledging that the woman, during all these years, had not misrepresented the truth.
As in other cases of this nature, the team was led by Professor María Elena Santibáñez . Fifth-year Law School students also participated, making an important contribution during the process.
The Children’s Area of the Legal Clinic is financed solely with contributions from external individuals or organizations, which voluntarily seek to collaborate with the work carried out by this unit, since it depends exclusively on these contributions.