The Supreme Court (TS) has dismissed the appeals against the sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that confirmed sentences of between 10 and 12 years in prison for five young people accused of a crime of sexual abuse of a minor under 16 years of age committed in Manresa in October 2016.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court fully rejects the appeals of three of the convicted, who were the only ones raised against the sentence, since the other two convicted did not appeal.
The initial sentence was handed down by the Court of Barcelona on October 21, 2019. The five convicted and the accusations appealed to the TSJC, which dismissed the defendants’ appeal and partially upheld that of the accusations, in the sense of raising from 12,000 to 60,000 euros the amount of compensation that the convicted must pay the victim.
