A judge in Peru has ruled against archaeologist Marcela Poirier in a defamation lawsuit brought by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist she accused of sexual harassment.
A judge in Peru ruled against archaeologist Marcela Poirier on 23 May in a defamation lawsuit brought by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist she accused of sexual harassment. Poirier, a manager of cultural and educational resources in Lima, Peru, was fined $48,400 and given a suspended jail sentence of 1 year and 8 months.The judge’s decision is “arbitrary” and reflects a “misogynistic and[male chauvinist] perspective,” says Poirier’s lawyer, Brenda Álvarez.
He celebrated Monday’s ruling. “This is the beginning of a long process of cleaning my name,” he told. “My family is very affected and my investigations have gone to hell. … Forty years of work are ruined.” In 2021, Poirier filed a complaint with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences , of which Castillo Butters was an international member, and itHe was the third researcher and first international member to be ousted from the organization after it implemented a process that allows members to be removed if their home institution finds violations of NAS’s code of conduct.
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