The prison expertise of “Morcilla” Morales, the accused of killing a boy by a cell phone in front of the San Lorenzo court

Yesterday morning, Nahuel Ismael Eguino Uria was stabbed to death at the corner of Perito Moreno and Bonorino, in the vicinity of the San Lorenzo court, in the shadow of village 1-11-14. The City Police arrested for the crime a young man from the area, Sebastián Nicolás Morales, 23 years old, thin, with the skin of his face stuck to his cheekbones, knife factions.

In Bajo Flores, Morales has a story.

His police record speaks of various accusations against him: signings for gender violence, armed robbery, injuries. His story is that of a gangbanger. The conviction handed down by Criminal Court No. 1 to Erick Blas González — the brother of the Peruvian minor who killed Brian Aguinaco in 2017 — includes his name. Morales was syndicated in the interrogations as a member of the “La Salita Band”, a group of boys from the area turned into thugs and motojets, some adults, others minors. Erick and his brother were part of that band.

Some of them had colorful aliases that evoked martial arts: “Goku”, by the main character of Dragon Ball Z, “Shaolin”, “Samurai”, “The Ninja”. Morales had a simpler nickname. They called him “Black pudding.” He was raided in the framework of that case, found a 22-caliber revolver and a couple of bullets.

In August 2018, “Morcilla” was sentenced to three years in prison by Court No. 4 for the sum of two cases: armed robbery and possession of a weapon of war, a sentence that expired on March 19, 2021. His defense repeatedly tried to get him released on parole. The system's rejections were unanimous. After the National Court of Criminal Execution No. 5 refused to give him the benefit, his defense appealed to the House. It was also rejected, with the signature of judges Gustavo Bruzzone and Eugenio Sarrabayrouse.

A prisoner in Marcos Paz at the time, the one accused today of killing Nahuel had gone through a series of studies ordered by the Justice to determine if he was fit to return to the streets. Among them was an evaluation by the Criminological Section of the Federal Prison Service. “Black pudding”, apparently, wasn't ready.

The report, included in the House's rejection dated December 29, 2020, assured that Morales “tends to action with difficulty controlling impulses, showing indicators of anxiety and latent aggression. He has poor and disaffected interpersonal relationships, and he does not have the resources to defend himself from the pressures coming from the environment. Therefore, it has an unfavorable prognosis of social reintegration”. “It has achieved the achievement of the proposed objectives but still needs to consolidate them in order to be able to sustain them over time,” he continued.

Thus, they valued negatively his “early incursion into criminal behavior”, that he did not have a life project beyond prison or crime, that he did not have work habits. It was also considered “necessary that he continue his psychological treatment by virtue of the patient's ability to deepen awareness of the decisions of his actions, as well as the consequences thereof”. His defense marked that Morales participated voluntarily in that treatment.

“The convicted person did not show a genuine interest” in improving his problems to date, a magistrate had said in a previous ruling. Even so, he had no recorded fights in jail, with a ten in conduct.

Three years later, if the accusations against him are true, “Morcilla” Morales killed a boy for literally nothing, a phone he couldn't have resold for more than five thousand pesos. Prosecutor Marcelo Solimine is in charge of the case.

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