The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has confirmed the sentences of 39 and 29 years in prison imposed on a man and a woman accused, among other crimes, of inducing three minors warded by the Government of Navarra into prostitution.
The court rejects the cassation appeals filed by the two convicted against the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra that confirmed the ruling issued by the Provincial Court in relation to these events. The three minors, two of them born in 2007 and the third in 2004, were supervised by the Navarra Agency for Autonomy and Development of People, according to the account of proven facts. During the year 2021, it was common for minors, when they escaped from the center or foster family where they were, to go to the home in Pamplona of one of the defendants – the inducer -.
There, this accused, knowing that one of the minors had not turned 14 years old, had sexual relations with her twice. This convicted man, as well as the convicted woman, urged the victims to take “photographs of sexual content”, in which their faces were not seen so that their minority could not be deduced. These images, along with some posters with their respective telephone numbers, were published in 17 ads on a sexual contacts website.
Thus, from September 23 to 29, the minors performed the sexual services that the defendants had explained to them that they should do. They received payment in cash or through Bizum. The two pimps – the man and the woman – “They supplied the minors with hashish, cocaine and speed” both for them to perform sexual acts and, sometimes, in payment for them.
The Chamber in its ruling, presented by Judge Andrés Martínez Arrieta, emphasizes that the story is “very harsh in the relationship of a conduct that is subsumed in sexual assault, in the criminal type of induction into prostitution and in the crime against public health. Rejects the appellants’ argument that the minors were not vulnerable, since their needs were covered, although they were rebellious because They had abandoned the foster care institutions where they resided or their families.
He explains that from the proven fact the description of a situation of “special vulnerability in need of special protection is clear, which results from the age of the minors, two of them under fourteen years of age and one of fifteen or sixteen, of which the “The accused take advantage, knowing that they had run away from their foster families or guardianship establishments, sheltering them for prostitution and supplying them with drugs as payment for the services they performed without their consent, since as minors they could not consent.”
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