The Valencia Court has sentenced a man to fifteen and a half years in prison who repeatedly abused and raped his 16-year-old daughter for months, whom he got pregnant and who must compensate 12,000 euros for the crimes. moral and psychological damages he suffered.
The Fifth Section of the Court considers him the author of a continuous crime of sexual assault using violence and intimidation, for which he has been sentenced to a prison sentence of thirteen years and nine months and the deprivation of parental authority over the victim, and another of mistreatment, for which the court has imposed one year and nine months in prison.
The man will not be able to approach the victim, her home, her place of study or work for 30 years or communicate with her by any means in the same period, according to the ruling, which is not final and can be appealed before the Court. Superior of Justice of the Valencian Community, who has made the ruling public.
The girl moved to live with her father when she was 12 years old, after living in Colombia with her mother and grandmother, and in Spain she began to live in the family home, along with her father’s current wife and another youngest daughter. both.
As reported in the proven facts of the sentence, after three months of living together, approximately in January 2020, the prisoner began to frequently hit the victim, with kicks and punches and hitting him with a belt on the legs and shoulders. arms.
Furthermore, with the intention of satisfying his sexual desire, he began to touch her in the genital area, over her clothes. Subsequently, she went from touching her to forcing her to have sexual relations, with an almost daily frequency.
The sentence details that the victim submitted to her father’s will because of the fear that he inspired in her, due to the physical violence that he continually exerted on her.
The girl reported the events to the Civil Guard on September 22, 2021 accompanied by the mother of a friend, and on the same day she was examined by a doctor who noted, in addition to several injuries, that she was pregnant.
According to the ruling, the minor’s pregnancy was terminated and the analysis of the DNA remains obtained from the embryo determined the paternal-filial relationship of the defendant with the extracted embryo.
At the beginning of the oral trial, the defendant acknowledged the facts that have been declared proven and both the private prosecution, represented by the Generalitat, and the defense adhered to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
