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For the first time in Peru's judicial history, a man was sentenced to imprisonment in a case of sexual harassment. A decision expected in a country still very machiste where sexual harassment is a crime for a year. Presentation of this case intended to enter the free of history.
With our regional correspondent in Quito , Éric Samson
It is September 12, 2018 that sexual harassment has become an offense punishable by 3 to 5 years in prison in Peru . It is exactly one year later that Alex Alvarez was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison with a fine of some 1300 euros. The 20-year-old boy was convicted on charges dating back to September 2018 in the Comas district of the capital.
At the time, Alex Alvarez had tried to force a 16-year-old girl to resume a romantic relationship that had begun two years earlier when both were minors. In the face of the girl's refusal, Alex Alvarez threatened her and her family with death. He had tried to persuade her by threatening to show an intimate photo to her mother, classmates and teachers.
His victim, traumatized, had then dropped out of school in the face of death threats, all the easier to prove that they were recorded on his cell phone. In addition to a lifetime ban on working in an educational center, Alex Alvarez will have to stay away from his victim and his family for ten years. A precaution that is not useless because the young man was sentenced in his absence and he is currently on the run.