THE Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court confirmed the sentences of 39 and 29 years in prison handed down to a man and a woman accusedamong other crimes, incite three kept minors into prostitution by the Government of Navarra.
The court rejects the appeals filed by the two convicted against the judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Navarre which confirmed the judgment rendered by the Provincial Court relating to these events.
THE three minorstwo of them born in 2007 and the third in 2004, were supervised by the Navarra Agency for Autonomy and Development of Peopleaccording to the account of proven facts. During the year 2021, it was common for minors, when escaping from the center or the foster family where they were, to go to the Pamplona home of one of the defendants – the inductor -.
There, this accused, knowing that one of the minors was not yet 14 years old, he had sex with her twice. This condemned man, as well as the condemned woman, They urged victims to take ‘sexual photos’in which their faces were not seen so that their minority would not be inferred. These images, along with some posters with their respective telephone numbers, were published in 17 advertisements on a sex contacts website.
Thus, from September 23 to 29, minors provided sexual services that the accused had explained to them what they had to do. They received payment in cash or via Bizum. The two pimps – the man and the woman – “supplied the minors with hashish, cocaine and speed”, both to perform the sexual acts and, sometimes, to pay them.
The Chamber, in its decision, presented by Judge Andrés Martínez Arrieta, emphasizes that the story is “very hard” in the relation of a behavior which is encompassed in the sexual assaultof the offense of incitement to prostitution and of the offense against public health”.
Dismiss the appellants’ argument that the minors were not vulnerablebecause their needs were covered, even if they were rebellious because they had abandoned the care institutions where they lived or their families.
Explains that according to the proven fact the description of a situation of “particular vulnerability” is clear requiring special protection, which results from the age of the minors, two of them under fourteen years old and one fifteen or sixteen years old, from which the accused take advantage, knowing that they have fled their foster family or their supervision of the establishments, harboring them for prostitution and providing them with drugs as payment for their services which they did without their consent, because as minors they could not consent.”
