Yamila Cialone went to court this week after learning from the media that Roque Lucero, Guadalupe Belén Lucero’s paternal grandfather, had been indicted for aggravated sexual abuse involving a minor with a disability. The complaint against him was filed in November 2024, charges were brought on April 20, and the case has now added a new layer to a disappearance that has remained open for nearly five years.
Cialone said she found out about the accusations only after they began circulating publicly. “Why doesn’t the province work together with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in a case where the paternal grandfather has this kind of accusation and we have a missing girl?” she asked. She also said Lucero lived in San Luis XXIII, next to the 544 Viviendas neighborhood where Guadalupe disappeared on June 21, 2021. “I found out today, and my daughter, Guadalupe’s mother, also learned through a video from Dr. Poma Otaegi,” Cialone said.
The indictment centers on a minor with a disability who said she was abducted by a neighbor who lived across the street and abused inside a home. Court records cited in the case indicate that Cámara Gesell examinations reportedly came back positive before the indictment. Lucero remains free under precautionary measures: he must sign in between the 1st and 10th of each month, is barred from leaving the country and was ordered out of the house where he had lived next to the complainant.
The case matters now because the family on Guadalupe’s maternal side is asking Federal Justice to examine whether the abuse accusation and the disappearance could be connected. That request comes as a second abuse complaint against Lucero is also moving forward and is already in the Cámara Gesell stage. With Guadalupe’s disappearance still unresolved, the new charges have turned a long-open search into a wider judicial question that prosecutors will have to confront directly.
For Cialone and the child’s family, the issue is no longer only where Guadalupe vanished. It is whether the courts will finally look at the geography, the family ties and the timing together, or leave those threads separate in a case that has already gone on too long.