The Murcia Court has rejected the prosecutor’s appeal for the incarceration of Juan Castejón Ardid, one of the “businessmen of shame” convicted in the underage prostitution plot. The prosecution believed his responsibility was greater since he had paid for sex with up to five teenagers aged between 14 and 17 when the ring was discovered in 2014.
Castejón will not be able to communicate with them for four years. She was also the subject of behavioral rehabilitation therapy on sexuality and compensation of 2,000 euros to each of her five victims, in addition to the payment of a fine of 3,600 euros.
“El Petrolero,” as this Cartagena businessman is called, was always asking “young and new girls who to have sex with.” The teenagers were caught at school, on job postings or in nightclubs. light after the deception and insistence of pimps or “moms”.
Vice-president of the employers’ association of Cartagena and the Region of Murcia
Castejón is one of the businessmen convicted in the underage prostitution plot, but there were also school janitors, waiters and undertakers.
The real estate developer had been linked for four decades to the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations (COEC) of Cartagena, of which he became president between 1991 and 1995. He then served as vice-president of the employers’ association of Cartagena and Murcia . The COEC even awarded him a Business Excellence Award in 2009. When the affair broke out, Castejón resigned from both groups.
When Castejón first testified to police in November 2014, he assured that he had known Yesenia, the pimp in the plot who also won’t go to prison, from the days when she ran the Manhattan massage parlor , located near Gran Vía in the Murcia region. capital.
When the place closed, Yesenia continued to call him asking for girls at his apartment on Avenida Ciudad de Almería. Since the closure, according to the summary of the file to which elDiario.es/Murcia had access, Yesenia would have offered him around twenty, always new at his request. For each contact he paid 100 euros, which he gave directly to “Yeni”, as he was called, and of which it is assumed that the girls received half.
When the Murcia Provincial Court suspended Yesenia’s sentence, it found that her participation in the plot deserved “lesser reproach” than the other members of the organization, “convicted of double or multiple crimes, which suggests that her involvement and “their decision” The production capacity of the aforementioned organization was also lower.
In his statement he “assumes” that the girls he had dates with were between 20 and 40 years old, but Castejón was the first client of a girl of only 17 years old, whom Karina introduced to the businessman: “She and Nelly did the service jointly. » , knowing that he was 17 years old; He wanted to perform the full service without a condom, neither of them agreed and ended up giving them oral sex,” the summary reads.
During the suspension hearing, the judges asked Juan Castejón Ardid if he had personal reasons that prevented him from going to prison. The businessman resorted to a stroke and heart surgery, in addition to a pacemaker. Also because he managed several companies.
The three leaders of the plot, in prison
The decade since the plot was discovered, what the law calls undue delays, is what drove Castejón and the seven other “shame entrepreneurs” who sexually abused minors — one of They are dead – as are the three pimps. or “moms” and the two “pirate taxi drivers” who brought and took away the girls, reached an agreement last September with the prosecutor’s office which considerably reduced the sorrows
Three of the convicts will go to prison – the pimps Ruth Karina Dorado and Nelly Paola Céspedes as well as the illegal taxi driver Walter Domínguez, the husband of the first – but this will not be the case of the seven “businessmen of shame” or the other. mom”, Yesenia Mercedes Balladares, and the other “pirate taxi driver”, Martín Galo Dorado, brother of Ruth Karina. The Murcia public prosecutor’s office also appealed the suspension of the prison sentences of the latter two for “constitution of a criminal gang”.
