The Catalan Police investigate a group sexual assault on an eleven-year-old girl in the toilets of a shopping center in Badalona (Barcelona). The alleged perpetrators are six, as TV3 advanced on Tuesday. Five of them have been identified by the victim, but three are under 14 years of age and therefore cannot be charged for a crime.
Justice cannot act against them. On the other hand, there are two who are over 14 years of age, although they are also under 18. One has been admitted to a closed regime center, decreed by a juvenile judge, and the other is on probation. The two were arrested by the Mossos.
According to the account of a sister of the victim, she was sexually assaulted while being threatened with a knife. The events occurred last November, but the case had not come to light until now as it involved minors. However, the family of the little girl has decided to tell it so that society “becomes aware” of what “is happening.”
The girl went to a TV3 program this Tuesday to tell the hell her little sister lived through. The victim does not remember the day it happened, but she did remember that she had gone to see clothes at the Magic Badalona shopping center, very close to the center of the Barcelona city. It was a Saturday, around 1:00 p.m. Connecting the dots, the family concludes that it was November 19. She went alone, she had told her mother that she had met friends. She stopped before a shop window. The attackers surrounded her, threatened her with a knife, and put her in the bathroom. They sexually assaulted her and left. “They did with her what they wanted,” according to her sister’s account. “She couldn’t get away from her. She had a knife in her neck and they threatened to kill her,” her relative narrated. “When they were done, they left,” she added.
The little girl went out and asked for help from a security guard, who, according to the family’s account, ignored her. “What are you saying? Go there”, was the answer that the security guard gave the girl. Had the center acted diligently, it would have been able to raise the alert immediately.
It took time to tell
At first, the girl did not explain anything at home, until a month later her older brother said that they had told him at the institute that a video was circulating with what happened. The minor narrated what happened and her parents reported it to the Mossos. At that moment, the parents understood the change in her attitude in recent times: she had become more introverted.
The sixth assailant has not yet been identified. Partly because of the lack of diligence of the security guard. The case remains open pending the trial of the two minors who were arrested and the sixth alleged sexual offender can be identified. The general directorate for child care of the Generalitat has already informed the relatives of the other three authors, who are under 14 and against whom no criminal case can weigh, what their children have done.
Meanwhile, the victim is “pulling”, according to his sister. “At first he was not aware of the seriousness of what they have done to him,” according to her sister. “It’s hard for everyone, but you have to be strong for her,” she noted. The little girl is being treated by a psychologist and a pediatrician. “If I had powers, I would like her to be fine and that the case would not affect her life,” said the sister, who asks that the perpetrators pay for the crime they have committed. “It’s unthinkable and horrible,” she described. “This society is not aware of what is happening,” she concluded.
Something is happening, indeed, because it is not an isolated case. Last week it emerged that, a month ago, five minors were arrested for sexually assaulting a classmate in a Rubí (Barcelona) institute. The victim is 14 years old and four of those arrested are also. The fifth alleged aggressor is 17. The case would have occurred in the presence of a teacher in the classroom, in a class change. In addition, in October the parents of an eleven-year-old girl reported a possible case of sexual abuse committed by several minors under 14 at a fairground attraction in Badalona.
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