F)
Current status of Sebastián Furlan
116.
Sebastián Furlan finished high school “at the age of thirty.” 237 However, his accident
affected “his opportunities for educational development” and “his potential relationships with
peers.” Specifically, there is evidence of the “enormous difficulties that he has experienced
throughout these years to get a decent job that correspond[ed] to the social and assistance
benefits in accordance with the labor law.”238 Currently, “Sebastián works selling perfumes
[...] on his own and in the streets” and “never ha[d] a formal job.” 239
117. Sebastián Furlan now lives with his partner, Laura Alicia Sarto and his two sons,
Diego Germán and Adrián Nicolás.240 The family income consists of Sebastián Furlan’s
disability pensions (supra para. 115) and the “small amount that [Sebastián] makes on
perfume sales.” In this regard, a social-environmental report on this family unit concluded
that “[t]he analysis of the household and observations demonstrat[ed], in terms of
‘livability,’ the serious difficulties faced both by Sebastián and by his family” given that the
house “does not meet the basic standards for performing daily activities.”241
118. Finally, the most recent medical assessments242 of Sebastián Furlan indicate: i)
“failures in problem-solving (difficulties in learning to do new things […] difficulty in making
future plans, difficulty in doing things in order,” among others; ii) “attention difficulties
(easily distracted [or] needs to pay more attention and make greater efforts to perform
tasks and lack of attentiveness),” iii) “memory problems (forgets what he had planned to
do, forgets commitments and forgets where he puts things),” and iv) “practical difficulties
(to draw or copy), difficulty when expressing thoughts and slow speech.” Moreover, they
identified “fine motor problems, unsteadiness of gait, balance problems and he bumps into
things often.” They also detected “problems with abstract thinking, speed of information
processing and poor self-monitoring of his behavior and responses.” Similarly, they
observed “difficulties in the initial assimilation of new information” which is reflected in the
“storage and long-term recalling of information.” It was concluded that the “cognitive profile
shows mild to moderate attention-executive dysfunction.”
119. Similarly, the medical reports described Sebastián as “an adult who has difficulty in
focusing his attention and executive functions, evident in the problems with abstract
thinking, speed of information processing, poor self-monitoring of his behaviors and
responses. He also has memory problems that interfer[e] with the acquisition of new
information.” Regarding Sebastián’s daily life, these concluded that “daily life activities are
237
Social-environmental report prepared by Marta Celia Fernández, pages 2458 to 2469.
238
Social-environmental report by Marta Celia Fernández, pages 2458 to 2469.
239
Social-environmental report by Marta Celia Fernández, pages 2458 to 2469.
240
Social-environmental report by Marta Celia Fernández, pages 2458 to 2469.
241
According to the social-environmental report by Marta Celia Fernández, Sebastian Furlan is continues to
live in Ciudadela Norte, an area which, as previously mentioned, is middle lower class and lower class. The report
describes house as having “flimsy walls and the roof [was] clearly in a state of disrepair, [with] leaks contributing
to the characteristic humidity of the place and caus[ing] its poor state. The report added, “the room used by the
family as a bedroom [was] of an inadequate size, not suited to the number of family members who [slept] there.”
“It looked very untidy due to the small space and the large number of belongings that were kept there.” The report
concluded that possible reparations to the house “would really be insufficient given the prevailing conditions in the
place.”
242
Report issued by the Centro de Estudios de la Memoria and la Conducta (Center for Memory and Behavior
Studies) of July 18, 2011 (file of appendices to the brief of pleadings and motions, volume 5, pages 2470 to 2476).
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