Juan Ceretta was summoned to court for the improper media exposure of a girl.

At the end of January 2025, from his personal X account (formerly Twitter), the Frente Amplio lawyer published the excerpt of a court ruling about a minor, which led to him being reported and summoned to court. 

The facts

In mid-January of this year, the Socialist Party launched Ceretta as a pre-candidate for the Montevideo mayoralty.

This was reported by the press. The other proclaimed pre-candidates were Mario Bergara, Verónica Piñeiro, and Salvador Schelotto.

These three were the ones who were finally proclaimed candidates for the capital's mayoralty for the May 11 elections.

The reaction on social media

After it became known that the Frente Amplio lawyer was one of the pre-candidates, some users of the social network X (formerly Twitter) began to post that the also professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Republic, had been reported in mid-2021 for media aggression toward a girl of just 6 years old who had different abilities.

What happened in 2021?

In that year, the girl's parents were forced to report the socialist professor in court, because he repeatedly released references to the minor through various media.

He did so both in a radio broadcast of El Espectador where Ceretta is a columnist, and in statements to La Diaria and El País (see clippings in this note). 

Faced with the constant attacks on the little girl, the parents decided to take some legal action to stop the insults to the girl.

His 2025 attack

In his "defense," at the end of last January, Ceretta posted a tweet of an excerpt from the 2021 court ruling to "demonstrate" that, supposedly, in that year the judge had exonerated him from responsibility for the media aggression toward the minor.

The girl's parents, upon learning that the Frente Amplio lawyer was once again referring to their little daughter on social media, filed a complaint with the Specialized Family Court 5th shift under the charge of Judge Soledad Nin. 

His post at the end of January had many views, and other users joined the fierce media attack on the minor. 

One of them was Enrique Amestoy, who publicly presents himself as a "hacker" (computer pirate), and who was also reported in the same court. 

This individual has a weekly column on Tv Ciudad where he talks about technology. 

The complaint filed in court states, among other things, that the Faculty professor "exposes the minor to public hatred and contempt".  

Later it states "in an absolutely gratuitous manner and without any need attacks the little girl. He is publicly exposing the girl to outrage, contempt, insult, dishonor, and public vilification". 

Ceretta declared for the aggression toward the minor

On February 3, 2025, the hearing took place where Judge Nin instructed both aggressors to cease their media attacks against a small girl who also has different abilities. 

The victim's defense cited the gender violence law 19.580, which Ceretta has publicly defended many times. This law refers in its article 4 to the impairment in the enjoyment or exercise of human rights. Article 5 refers to media violence toward a girl or a woman.

The victim is a girl of just 10 years old who suffers from a severe disability, a situation perfectly known by Ceretta and Amestoy when they attacked her on social media.

Specifically, the court resolution states that the two defendants must not "mention the girl's name on social media".

There should be serious and responsible reflection on these gratuitous media attacks against minors. 

Juan Ceretta, in addition to being a university professor, is currently a candidate for departmental councilor of Montevideo for the Socialist Party, Frente Amplio.