Two Argentine judges whose controversial decision to reduce the sentence of a convicted child abuser provoked widespread anger here have had their resignations accepted, Argentina’s state news agency reported on Saturday.
The
judges, Horacio Piombo, 72, and Benjamín Sal Llargués, reduced the
sentence because they claimed that the 6-year-old victim, a boy, had
already displayed homosexual tendencies. They were allowed to step down by Daniel Scioli, the governor of Buenos Aires Province, according to Télam, the news agency.