In this article, I analyse the relationship between women’s social movements, justice and the communication of new forms of corporate sexual crime in Argentina. The article focuses on a fundamental dimension of political life, the establishment of the public authority in relation to respect for the system of rights during the process of investigation of the rape case followed by the death of Maria Soledad Morales in the Argentinian province of Catchsia in 1990 documented by the press. Analysis of newspaper news shows that senior officials from the executive, the police and the judiciary, rather than contributing to the investigation of the crime, collaborated with the hiding operations of the members of the pandilla. In this situation, the intervention of the women movement was crucial to rebuild the social ties affected by the crime in terms of the sovereignty of the law. The movement questioned the complicity of the members of the public apparatus with the perpetrators and the feeling of disorder and impunity caused by the lack of respect for the law. The analysis highlights that, in the context of freedoms and increasing autonomy, the lack of respect for women’s rights relates both to the limits of politics within democratic republican states and to the crisis of sovereignty of the liberal state in question.