Four Years in Prison for Sexually Assaulting Three Minors, Friends of His Sister, in Novelda

The Third Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante has sentenced a young man to four years in prison for sexually assaulting three minors, friends of his sister, while they were staying overnight at his home in Novelda.

The Court finds him guilty of three counts of sexual assault against a minor, one involving carnal access, with mitigating circumstances of undue delays, resulting in two six-month prison sentences and another of three years.

The convicted man must pay 5,000 euros to two of the victims and 15,000 euros to the third as compensation for the moral damages suffered by the minors as a result of the incidents. Additionally, he is prohibited from approaching within 200 meters of the minors or communicating with them for eight years in the case of one victim and five years for the other two.

The first assault occurred, according to the proven facts of the sentence, on October 13, 2018, when the victim, then 12 years old, went to sleep at her friend's house in Novelda. During the night, while the girls were each sleeping on a sofa, the accused asked if he could sleep with them because he did not want to sleep alone, and lay down on the sofa where the victim was, subjecting her to inappropriate touching.

During the same month of October 2018, the second victim, aged 13, stayed overnight at the defendant's mother's house, invited by his sister, who took advantage of the situation to ask her to come to his room. Once in the room, the convicted man touched her inappropriately and forced her to perform oral sex.

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The last assault occurred on November 17, 2018, when a third girl, aged 12, went to sleep at the convicted man's house, and during the night, the accused entered the room where the minors were sleeping, took the hand of his sister's friend, and directed it towards his genitals, despite the victim's resistance.

The sentence, which is not final and can be appealed before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Tsjcv, considers that the duration of the proceedings has been extraordinary and that this duration cannot be attributed to the convicted man but rather to the enormous workload that burdens the Provincial Court, thus recognizing the mitigating factor of undue delays as highly qualified.