The murder of Micaela "Mica" Ortega was a child's murder that occurred in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and which led to the law known as "the Mica Ortega law", which deals with grooming, by adults, of children, with sexual purposes, in the South American country.
[3] On the night of her disappearance, Ortega left her house at Noroeste barrio in Bahia Blanca, thinking she was going to meet another 12-year old girl.
[7] Her dead body was found on 28 May, 2016 in a desolate area of Ingeniero White barrio in Bahia Blanca.
[5] Luna was tried in court for child sexual grooming, and, in a historical moment for Argentine justice, became the first person in the country to be convicted of those charges in October of 2017.
But the motion was denied on 5 July, 2023 by judges Ricardo Lorenzetti, Horacio Rosatti and Juan Carlos Maqueda.