She had been partying with some friends at a place in La Carlota, in the province of Córdoba and a point very close to Écija (Seville), when she met three individuals from the Astigitana town where she also lived. When the store closed, her men offered to take her and a friend back to her house by car. That morning it was raining a lot, there were two free seats in the vehicle, so they accepted.
It was the last Sunday of March, the 31st day of the month, when the nightmare of the young woman began, a 17-year-old girl who, according to the story offered by her mother to Canal Sur Radio, had fallen asleep on the journey and She woke up when “she was being raped” in an “open field.” Apparently, her attackers, of Ecuadorian origin, had taken her friend to her home, leaving them alone with her and, taking advantage of this clear disadvantage of hers, they raped her in the same car in which they were traveling with her.
The victim notified the emergency services when he arrived home, at which point the corresponding protocol was activated that ended with the arrest by the National Police of the members of this new ‘pack’.
As sources from the Superior Court of Justice have pointed out, the alleged rapists took advantage of their right not to testify before the head of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Écija, acting as guard, whose head agreed, at the request of Prosecutor’s Office, the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail of the three detainees accused of the possible commission of a crime of sexual assault. It will be Court number 1 of the city of Astigo that will handle the case.
The case has caused a stir in society, while the facts are being investigated. Let “the full weight of the law” fall on these individuals, has expressed the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, who has stated that “this Government is not going to allow, it is not going to consent to this type of actions being resolved without everything the weight of the law falls on the aggressors.”
The minister commented that in Spain there is a regulatory framework “that allows women to be safer, calmer, more secure and that their word is of course the only one that has value at this time”, and has pointed out that the The ‘Yes means yes’ law “is an important law that puts consent at the center.” “When this consent does not occur, the full weight of the law must fall on the aggressors,” she stated.
