The judge of the Ninth Criminal Chamber of the National District sentenced Elizabeth Silverio to five years in prison for usurping neuroscientific functions in violation of the General Health Law.
The judge Milagros Ramirez Cabrera found Silverio guilty of accusations of usurping specialist functions and treating children with autism in the Kogland Center for Neurocognitive and Psychopedagogical Therapies. He sentenced her to pay compensation of two million pesos.
Upon leaving, the accused said that it is the third time that she has been convicted and that they have not been able to prove to her with accusations made. “I am the stopperright now from the reality of this country…first it was ten years, then seven, now it’s five, tomorrow it will be the acquittal” he said in reference to the times that a sentence has been handed down against him.
“They have not yet been able to prove to me with facts that they (children) were harmed, affected or that they were medicated as they alleged,” Silverio said after leaving the Ninth Criminal Chamber of the National District.
Elizabeth Silverio sentenced to five years in prison for practicing illegal medicine
According to the Public Ministry, Silverio used falsified documents, including university degrees and a number of non-existent exequaturwith whom he appeared to have professional training that he did not possess, thus managing to generate trust in families and attract patients to whom he offered services at his center.
Likewise, Magalys Sánchez Guzmánprosecutor of the National District, stated that Silverio “was posing as a neuroscientist without having professional studies.”
“This lady, by making use of that false quality, defrauded; in addition, she violated the Health Law, which clearly establishes that to practice the profession you need the higher studies and obtain the exequatur to practice in the Dominican Republic,” commented Sánchez Guzmán.
The representative of the prosecution body explained that Silverio falsified an exequatur in order to “be able to demonstrate to parents and deceive them”.
Appeal of the sentence
However, Waldo Paulino, Silverio’s lawyer, assured that they would appeal the sentence and explained that it could not be proven that Silverio “I made a fake title”.
“It could not be proven that Elizabeth made a fake titlewhat is being talked about is its use and false quality. By giving the motivation, the judge is giving the dichotomy and the reasons for us. appeal”Paulino revealed.
It should be noted that the prosecutor’s office established that the aforementioned violated articles 147, 148, 150, 151 and 405 of the Dominican Penal Code, as well as articles 92, 93 and 156 paragraph 7 of General Health Law 42-01 and article 12 of Law 136-03 on the Protection System and Fundamental Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents.
