This Monday afternoon, Martín Horacio Escobar Behr -a 48-year-old neighbor of Merlo accused of sexually abusing his daughters, one of whom became pregnant and became a mother in April 2011, just a 14-year-old adolescent – was arrested after having spent more than six years on the run from Justice . The arrest, as confirmed by high judicial sources to Infobae, it happened a few hours ago in northeastern Argentina after publication in this medium of an offer of financial reward to anyone who will provide information about his whereabouts.
On October 30, 2015, the Court of Guarantees No. 2 of Morón had ordered the arrest of Escobar behr and, Before the Buenos Aires Police went to look for him at his home, he fled without a trace. Ten days after the arrest warrant was issued, Judge Ricardo Fraga declared him in absentia and ordered his capture. But the man was on the run for almost six years.
Last week, The Ministry of Security of the province of Buenos Aires offered between one million and one and a half million pesos to anyone who would provide data that would allow finding the man’s whereabouts.
The case against Escobar Behr -with more than 20 registered jobs before profuse, mostly in the area of the construction and private security companies– started in 2015 with the complaint of his ex-wife and mother of his two daughters, who were, at the same time, its victims.
The sexual attacks for which the man was intensely sought would have occurred between mid-2004 and early 2011.
In their testimonies before the prosecutor Paula Hondeville, in charge of the UFI N ° 10 of Morón specialized in gender violence, the victims claimed to have suffered abuse since they were nine years old of age and related in detail what they lived in their family home in the town of Parque San Martín.
But in the case there are, in addition to their stories, expert reports that accompany that accusation and a blood sample that Escobar agreed to deliver and that is now key to explain the very serious accusation that weighs on him.
One of his daughters had, as a result of her own father’s abuse, a pregnancy that led to its term and from which a girl was born: The genetic test included in the file reveals a 99.99% probability that Escobar Behr is the biological father of his own granddaughter.
With these elements, Justice first ordered a home exclusion and a perimeter restriction Regarding his family to Escobar, who just a few days later, when his arrest was ordered, disappeared without a trace.
Six years later all attempts to find him continue without success until the publication in the last hours of his story and the financial offer for information on his whereabouts.
Now, Escobar is charged with the crimes of sexual abuse with carnal access aggravated by being the victim’s ancestor and the pre-existing coexistence situation in two events, in an ideal contest with doubly aggravated corruption of minors.
Thus, he must respond in an investigation before the prosecutor Hondeville.
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