Domingo Domingo Silva Soto
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
Domingo Domingo Silva Soto
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
Domingo Silva Soto was a 1st Corporal of the Carabineros convicted for his participation in the kidnapping and homicide of three civilians in Pitrufquén during September 1973. The Chilean justice system sentenced him as the perpetrator of these human rights crimes committed at the beginning of the military dictatorship.
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A retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Carabineros and five retired non-commissioned officers of the same institution, along with one civilian, were convicted by the visiting judge of Temuco, Fernando Carreño, for the kidnapping and disappearance in Pitrufquén in September 1973 of Enrique Tenorio Fuentes, a socialist teacher; Luis Calfuquir Villalón, administrator of the Pitrufquén hospital; and Osvaldo Burgos Lavoz, an agent of the Banco del Estado in that town.
Those convicted in the first-instance ruling are retired Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Moreno Mena (15 years, perpetrator), retired non-commissioned officers Reinaldo Lukowiak Luppy (15 years, perpetrator), Hugo Catalán Lagos (15 years, perpetrator), Domingo Silva Soto (15 years, perpetrator), Germán Fernández Torres (5 years, perpetrator), and Nadir Guzmán Pincheira (3 years, accessory).
The civilian Heriberto Babilek Budic received a sentence of 3 years and one day as an accessory. Only Guzmán and Babilek were granted the benefit of supervised release.
Source: lanacion.cl, October 4, 2007
Supreme Court issues final ruling for dictatorship-era crimes in Pitrufquén
The Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court issued a final ruling for the aggravated kidnapping of Einar Tenorio Fuentes and Luis Calfuquir Villalón, and the aggravated homicide of Osvaldo Burgos Lavoz, which occurred beginning on September 15, 1973, in the town of Pitrufquén, La Araucanía Region.
In a split decision, the highest court handed down the following sentences: 3 years and one day for Reinaldo Lukowiak Luppy; 729 days for Carlos Moreno Mena, Hugo Nibaldo Catalán Lagos, Domingo Silva Soto, and Germán Fernández Torres; and 200 days for Nadir Guzmán Pincheira and Heriberto Babileck Druding.
All those convicted were granted the benefit of supervised release. This ruling was adopted with the dissenting votes of justices Nibaldo Segura and Rubén Ballesteros, who were of the opinion that the statute of limitations for criminal action should be applied.
Likewise, in the civil sphere, the same judges rejected the payment of that sum by accepting the plea of lack of jurisdiction of the court.
Source: lanacion.cl, December 23, 2009
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