A court in Peru has sentenced three policemen to 17 years in jail each for contravening the law over offences of assault on a transgender woman.
The court held the injunction in the offenders: Dino Ponce, Luis Quispe, and Juan Leon after they were found guilty on charges of aggravated torture and sexual abuse and thereafter sentenced them accordingly.
The prosecutors, at the proceeding stated that the trio commited the offence sometime in 200, physically and sexually assaulting the victim oman at a police station in a case that drew international scrutiny.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, IACHR, in 2020 condemned Peru’s handling of the attack which happened at the police post in Azul Rojas, northern Peru.
The IACHR held that Rojas’ membership in the LGBTQ community was an aggravating factor in the attack.
“A sentence of 17 years in prison is imposed on police officers Dino Ponce, Luis Quispe, and Juan Leon,”the verdict at the court yesterday reads, thereby, ordering an immediate Imprisonment of the lawbreakers.
