This is how Ángel Cabrera serves his sentence for gender-based violence: from winning the Augusta Masters to working in the vegetable garden of a Córdoba prison

In 2009 the world spoke Angelo Cabrera. The Argentine golfer, who two years earlier had aroused astonishment by winning the United States Open, wore the green jacket reserved for the champion of the Augustan MastersHe greater that every golfer wants to win from the moment they start playing.

It’s just been 14 years. The green jacket, as it has always been since 1934, is back in the game. But Duck Cabrera is away from the greens of the exclusive and selective Augusta National Golf Club, despite his winner status would allow him to play the tournament for life. is that these days is serving a sentence for gender-based violence.

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How did he end up behind bars? She piled up complaints against him first. Cecilia Torres Manaone of his former associates, accused him of “Beatings, harassment, verbal threats and ill-treatment of all kinds”. She wasn’t his only victim. The testimonials of Micaela Escudero, another from his ex, e Silvia Rivaderothe mother of his children, inflated the accusation.

So as the justice investigation progressed, Cabrera went to play a tournament in the United States in mid-2020 and was absent from several investigations. He said he was injured and needed treatment in North America: a wrist was operated on. Among his excuses, he avoided returning to the village and forced him to jump an international arrest warrant.

He was finally arrested in January 2021 in Brazil. A few days later he was extradited to Argentina and detained in the Bouwer prison in Córdoba pending the trial which finally took place in July of the same year.

The golfer, who turns 53 today, warned: “I will prove that I’m innocent”. She couldn’t. Days later he was found guilty of aggravated injuries and simple theft against your ex They gave him an effective prison sentence of two years. During the trial, video from the security cameras of Cabrera’s home were used as evidence, as well as other recordings made by Torres Mana.

The fiscal Laura Battistelliwho was the one who asked for the two-year sentence later confirmed by the Tribunal, also asked that for the attacks on Torres Mana, Cabrera underwent psychological treatment to overcome his alcohol addiction.

Justice asked the women why they didn’t walk away from the attacker and they replied: “Because he threatened me and my family. I couldn’t separate because I feared for my life”said Micaela Escudero, who was his girlfriend between 2014 and 2016.” And he added: “He is a person who breaks all boundaries and is very aggressive. He made video calls to me and I had to show him who I was with and where I was. No one could call me because he would get angry.”

And Nayi completed: “He thought his career was a safe conduct to avoid what could happen with the courts of Córdoba, but he was extradited and had to face trial”.

Cabrera seeks freedom, but…

How is Cabrera’s life these days? Carlos Hairabedian, his lawyer, tells it in dialogue with clarion: “He is currently held in the Colonia Abierta Montecristo (a model prison 20 kilometers from the city of Córdoba). Agricultural and livestock activities are carried out there. Hopefully, he will be released on parole in July.”. His passage to the penal institution allowed him, at least, to distance himself from the common criminals housed in Bouwer.

However, apart from having benefited from the transfer, Cabrera doesn’t have it so easy. The thing is The now former golfer is facing another trial Escudero has asked for, which could take place before he completes the first sentence.

Tired of the threats, the woman moved to Buenos Aires, but was never able to get Cabrera off her back and denounced him again before the national justice system. “Everything was crazy. That’s why I don’t want him to go free and let’s go to another trial”says the complainant, who accuses him of minor wounds and constriction.

For now, the case is not advanced, but Justice gave him the panic button as a preventative. Nayi, who recently started sponsoring Escudero, told this paper that he hopes the new trial starts as soon as possible. “These characters are no longer improving… He has a face in front of society, but in front of his women he will continue to be violent. This man is no longer changing and deserves to remain in prison”he underlined.

A total of 242 femicides were registered in Argentina during 2022. This is equivalent, according to a report by the Observatory on Feminicides of the National Office of the Ombudsman (OFDPN), to four events a week which caused 200 sons and daughters to lose their mother due to the crimes.

Cordoba. Corresponding.