On camera, the ex-lawmaker was seen kissing his partner's breast during a live-streamed parliamentary session. Former Argentine national legislator Juan Emilio Ameri was condemned to prison for "disrupting the exercise of his duties" after he was seen on camera sucking his partner's breast.

In 2020, a video showing Ameri caressing a woman seated on his lap, removing her breast from her T-shirt, and kissing it went viral. At the time, the woman was attending a congressional videoconference.

A fellow lawmaker was giving a speech throughout the act, while other participants were watching from home. At that point, activities were taking place virtually to stop the Covid-19 outbreak from spreading. The recording went viral on social media, sparking a nationwide outcry that resulted in the lawmaker's suspension and eventual resignation.

Ameri, nevertheless, claimed that at the time he was unaware that he was online. "The connection is really bad here in the country's center. When my spouse emerged from the restroom, I asked her how her implants were doing and I kissed them because she had surgery to place them 10 days prior, he clarified at the beginning of the crisis. The former politician was sentenced by a court In the meantime, Ameri was given two years of probation and a one-month suspended prison sentence by a federal High Court in the South American nation on Monday after he was found guilty of causing a public disturbance.

According to local media citing judicial sources, the court determined that it was "evident that he knew his behavior could be noticed by the representatives of the people as well as by all those people who were watching the live broadcast of the debate."

In response to the decision, the former congressman declared he would file an appeal and charged that the media was preparing for his demise. "My health suffered as a result of the media's destruction of me. Ameri said to La, "I must have thought of a hundred different ways to kill myself."