Both of the Argentinean appeals court judges involved in the decision to reduce the sentence of a convicted child abuser because they claimed that his six-year-old victim was gay have now both resigned.

The 2014 ruling of the Buenos Aires appeals court was only revealed in mid May.

Judges Horacio Piombo and Benjamin Sal Llargues cut the prison sentence of Mario Tolosa, vice-president of a local, neighborhood soccer team, from six years to 38 months. Tolosa had been convicted of abusing the boy in the football club’s bathrooms in 2011.

‘Since the child was gay, the abuse wasn’t as bad as if he weren’t,’ it read.

The judges reasoned that the boy had been previously abused by his father and was ‘used to it.’

Revelation of the decision prompted international outrage, prompting Piombo to defend himself on a local radio station.

He said that the boy had already been ‘initiated by his father into the worst of worlds, leading him to depravation.’

‘As a result of that experience with the father, the child had showed signs of a transvestite conduct, of conduct we had to take into account.’

When the original ruling came to light last month, President Cristina Kirchner’s chief of staff complained, ‘we’re in the hands of morons.’

Following global condemnation of the decision, AP reports that Piombo stepped down from his position on Monday. He has also resigned from his post as a university law professor in Buenos Aires province. On Wednesday, Sal Llargues also tended his resignation to the Buenos Aires Criminal Appeals Court.

