The Provincial Court of Valencia has issued permanent reviewable prison for José Antonio A.C., 47 years old, who stabbed his 11-year-old son 27 times in April 2022 with the intention of causing the greatest possible pain to his ex-wife and mother of the child, whom he had just divorced.
According to the sentence to which EFE has had access, the court considers him the author of a crime of hyper-aggravated murder, qualified by the treachery and cruelty perpetrated on a minor under 16 years of age, with the concurrence of the aggravating circumstances of kinship and discrimination. due to gender, in ideal competition with a crime of psychological injuries.
The court has accepted the requests of the Prosecutor’s Office and the accusations, which requested permanent, reviewable imprisonment for the crime of murder, and has rejected that of the defense, which argued that there was no premeditation or cruelty and asked that the facts be considered as a homicide.
Likewise, it establishes the prohibition of communicating and approaching within two kilometers of his ex-wife, in any place where she is, for a period greater than 10 years than the duration of the prison sentence, as well as residing or going to the town of Cullera for the same time.
As the perpetrator of a crime of habitual mental and physical abuse of his ex-wife, he is sentenced to two years and four months in prison, to which another two years are added as the perpetrator of a crime of non-conditional threats; 10 months as the perpetrator of a crime of physical abuse, and another 10 months as the perpetrator of a continuing crime of breach of sentence.
He is also sentenced to compensate his ex-wife with 500,000 euros for the moral damages caused by the death of his son, to which another 450 euros are added for the moral damages caused by physical abuse and threats.
The application to the convicted person of the benefits of conditional remission of sentences is declared inadmissible, by express declaration in this regard by the popular jury court, in cases where the legal requirements for this purpose are met, as well as the request for pardon for the punished, if this resolution becomes final.
On January 16, the jury unanimously declared José Antonio A.C guilty of murder, and considered him responsible for the crimes of threats, breach of sentence, physical abuse and mental abuse for which he had been accused in this same process. .
The ruling now handed down by the Court, dated January 31, considers it proven that on April 3, 2022, José Antonio A.C. She killed his son, who had just turned 11 years old, stabbing him repeatedly and deeply with a kitchen knife in the neck, face, torso and head.
It indicates that the child, in addition to 41 other defensive injuries to his hands and arms and other cuts in various parts of the body and head, received 27 stab wounds in the front part of the neck, face, torso and head, penetrating in depth and of severe severity. , two of them mortal necessity.
He assures that José Antonio A.C. He knew, while stabbing his son, that such acts were likely to cause his death, and he wanted to kill his son in order to cause the child’s mother (his ex-wife) the greatest pain imaginable.
He adds that the convicted man “despised and discriminated against his wife for the fact that she was a woman,” and that killing their common son “was the culmination of his desire for sexist domination against her maintained throughout their marriage.”
