One of the aggressors assaulted her in a park in a town in Castellón and took her to her apartment in ‘shock’ to abuse her with a partner for six hours
The Supreme Court has ratified prison sentences of more than 20 years for two Romanian seasonal workers who on New Year’s Eve 2019 kidnapped a minor in a town in Castellón and raped her repeatedly and for hours.
The Criminal Chamber rejected the resources of the sexual aggressors and gave total validity and veracity to the statement of the 17-year-old victim, who suffered injuries and post-traumatic stress, for which she had to receive psychological treatment after the assault.
One of the convicted, a 21-year-old man who was working at the time in the orange harvest, left home during the early hours of New Year’s and, at about five in the morning, saw a young woman crossing a park on her way home. that she had participated with her friends in a party in the town hall square.
The Supreme considers the facts especially cruel, humiliating and denigrating because “they use and throw (the minor) as if it were a simple object”
He hid, immobilized the girl by surprisingly grabbing her from behind, threw her to the ground and raped her. It was then that he took advantage of the woman’s state of ‘shock’ to take her to the rented apartment that she shared with other temporary workers. In one of the rooms, the attacker and another of the tenants repeatedly raped and sexually abused the minor for the rest of the night and part of the morning, while ignoring her refusals and multiple complaints. They recorded the minor and took pictures of her without her consent while they abused her. They let her go around 11:00 on January 1, 2020, about six hours after she was kidnapped from the park.
The magistrates consider both authors of a crime of continued rape in competition with one of illegal detention and another of cooperation for rape, for contributing with their action in a pack to ensure the success of the sexual assault. The third conviction is for injuries.
The Supreme Court, like the Valencian courts that tried the case before, imposed 23 years in prison on the first assailant and 21 on the second. The magistrates emphasize that they are facing especially cruel and disgusting crimes because, in addition to repeated violations, “they use and throw it away as if it were a simple object”, in a “humiliating” and “degrading” action. It is a clear example, they add, of “objectification of a minor.”
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