The two former Arandina players convicted of sexual assault on a minor go to prison

The two former Arandina players convicted of sexual assault on a minor under 15 years of age in 2017 have entered the Lugo prison to serve a nine-year prison sentence, sources in the case have informed Efe.

In December 2019, the Burgos Court sentenced each of the three former Arandina Club de Fútbol players -Carlos Cuadrado ‘Lucho’, Víctor Rodríguez ‘Viti’ and Raúl Calvo- to 38 years in prison for the sexual assault of a minor on November 24, 2017.

However, when reviewing the sentence, the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León acquitted Calvo and reduced Cuadrado’s sentence to four years in prison and Rodríguez to three years by qualifying the acts as sexual abuse and not assault, by not have bullying

Subsequently, in November 2022, the Supreme Court reviewed the matter again and raised the sentence, in this case for sexual assault, since the crime of sexual abuse had disappeared, to nine years in prison for each of the convicted, a sentence of one year less than the one that would have corresponded to them before the entry into force of the so-called ‘only yes is yes’ law.

Now, Carlos Cuadrado ‘Lucho’ and Víctor Rodríguez ‘Viti’ have decided not to exhaust the term given by the Burgos Provincial Court for their entry into prison and have determined to do so voluntarily in the Lugo prison, where they have been since the past Friday, April 21.

The lawyer for one of the young men, Rafael Uriarte, explained that the two convicts wanted to enter the same prison to go through this “complicated situation” together.

The events that led to the conviction occurred in November 2017 when a teenager went up to the apartment they shared in Aranda de Duero, where they played for the local soccer club, Arandina.

The victim’s father denounced what happened almost 20 days later and the judge ordered the provisional detention of the three soccer players involved in the sexual assault on the minor, to which was added in the case of one of them, the youngest , the accusation of having later had a sexual relationship with the minor in another room of the house.