The septuagenarian, whose sentence is suspended, subjected the girl to touching while her mother was working
A 77-year-old man assumed before the Provincial Court of Murcia that he had subjected his granddaughter to sexual abuse from the age of six to eleven. According to the sentence, the defendant acknowledged that he took advantage of the moments when he was alone with the minor because her mother was working to subject her to touching.
After the recognition of the facts, the defendant reached an agreement with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution for which he has been sentenced to two years in prison for a crime of sexual abuse with the mitigating circumstances of repairing the damage – he consigned part of the civil liability – and undue delay. The resolution imposes on him, in addition to the jail sentence, the prohibition to approach or communicate with his granddaughter for five years and the obligation to compensate her in 12,000 euros for moral damages. The Chamber also sets a sentence of probation for five years.
Suspended sentence
According to the sentence, after imposing the sentence of two years in prison, his defense requested the suspension of the execution of this sentence. He also undertook to pay full compensation in one year and demanded that the existing precautionary measures be lifted, such as the seizure of the defendant’s pension. Neither the Prosecutor’s Office nor the private prosecution objected to his sentence being suspended and the Chamber granted that suspension of the sentence for three years. This concession is conditional, in any case, that the septuagenarian does not commit any crime again and that he pays the rest of the compensation, even in monthly payments.
The defendant, according to the sentence, took advantage of the family relationship that united him to the minor to subject her to abuse. As of 2004, when her parents separated, the girl began to live at her grandfather’s house in Murcia. In the afternoons, he recounted the resolution, taking advantage of the fact that the mother was working and that the grandfather was in charge of the girl and her brother, he began to subject her to sexual practices. The abuses began when the victim was 6 years old and continued until she was 11 years old.
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