There is a reason for the criminal process to be public.
It is not conceivable in a rule of law worthy of the name that a person could be deprived of liberty in a secret ceremony.
It is not, especially in a country in which for centuries there were prisons that participated in that nature and an inquisitive procedure was practiced in which the accused did not know who was accusing him or why.
Nobody like those of us who live in the place where the Inquisition lasted the longest understands better that the criminal process is aired with publicity and transparency.
What you ask yourself, when you have to go to one as a complainant and victim of a serious and humiliating crime for your dignity as a person, is whether criminal advertising needs, as it easily happens among us, to become a spectacle.
If there is no choice but to inflict on someone who claims to be overwhelmed by the contempt of others the additional torture of being exposed to the hateful scrutiny of a crowd with their bag of popcorn - or their macaroni, or their chicken fillet, or whatever - sitting down in front of the home screen where he watches the news.
It is true that they do not show your face, and that from the gaze of the accused they protect you in the room with screens.
But in all the news -even in the one at noon, the one that children who have just returned from school see- the characteristic inflections of your voice are heard, the firmness or anxiety, the clarity or confusion with which you respond to the questions of the prosecutor and the lawyers.
The voice identifies a person as much or more than the face, to the point that they have already developed systems to use it as a biometric signature.
Those who know you and hear you will know that it is you, if they didn't know it yet;
Those who do not know you will get an idea of who you are, how much your word is worth, how credible you are in what you are denouncing.
And this is where the absolute perversion of the system comes in.
In that examination, that scrutiny that you submit to by the television audience, the consumers of information and gossip, who are not the public before whom the criminal process should be open.
What the law requires is that your complaint is not made in a space removed from control, undermining the right of defense of the accused.
The credibility of what you present before the court must be valued by it and be able to be controversial by the Prosecutor's Office and the defenses in a public act.
In addition, imposing on yourself the obligation to entertain and satisfy the distracted mass that grazes in front of the television is an abuse from which it is unacceptable that we fail to exonerate you.
Who listens to you speak in court, frail, tremulous and scared, wonders how this has not taken some measure in order to preserve a little better your dignity and your privacy;
If he did not want to prevent your testimony from being heard, why not at least impose that it be done with some distortion of your voice.
And since the judges did not think about it, why was there not a single journalist who considered the possibility of doing it on his own, even if they did not impose it on him.
This would have prevented someone from recognizing you, among all the people who may well prefer not to hear you reel for the judges that dreadful moment in which strangers just take over your person and subject it to humiliations that no one would want to experience.
The question becomes even more uncomfortable when not long ago there was a case similar to yours, another devouring herd of a young woman, and the authorities and the media took all possible measures not to expose her, in the face of the unscrupulous who pointed her out on the networks social.
The added paradox is that in that case the alleged aggressors were seen with hairs and signs from the beginning, while there is much greater discretion about yours.
For some reason, your violated privacy does not weigh as much as their special presumption of innocence.
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