The defendants allegedly mounted the minor in his car in Fortuna, took 400 euros from him and took him to buy drugs in Murcia
Three men will sit next week on the bench accused of holding a 10-year-old minor, who they allegedly robbed and took to buy drugs. The defendants, Juan EA, alias ‘El Pachango’, Rubén L., ‘El Rey’ and Juan JB, ‘El Negro’, face sentences that add up to 11 years in prison for each of them for alleged crimes of illegal detention of underage victim and robbery with violence.
The three defendants, according to the prosecutor in his brief of provisional conclusions, were on the afternoon of June 8, 2017 in the vicinity of Parque del Toro, in Fortuna. There was also a ten-year-old boy who was carrying, hidden under his clothes, up to 900 euros in cash. The Public Ministry explains that the minor hid the amount after another had previously threatened him to give him the amount.
abuse of superiority
The three defendants, having knowledge of the money that the child was carrying, approached the minor. “El Pachango” told the boy to get in the car with them, but he refused, abandoning the bicycle he was using in the park and running away. The prosecutor maintains that Juan EA then chased the minor, catching him up shortly after to put him in the car in which the three defendants were traveling. Rubén L. presumably collaborated in the maneuver and both grabbed the boy’s arms and legs to put him in the vehicle.
Once inside, they headed to the Murcian district of El Palmar. Along the way, Juan EA allegedly grabbed the money the boy was carrying and counted it. Once they arrived in El Palmar, according to the story given by the prosecutor, Rubén L. bought heroin with the money that had been taken from the boy and they all returned to Fortuna in the same car. After consuming part of the drug in the car, they left the minor again in the park, returning 500 euros to him and then leaving the area.
The Public Ministry considers that these facts suppose an alleged crime of illegal detention and another of robbery with violence with the aggravating circumstance of abuse of superiority or taking advantage of circumstances to help other people. He demands that each of the defendants be sentenced to 11 years in prison and a ban on approaching or communicating with the victim for eight years. In addition, it requires that the minor be compensated 1,400 euros for the money stolen and moral damages.
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