The Provincial Court of Pontevedra sentenced to 14 years in prison a man who sexually abused a minor for six yearsgranddaughter of her partner, from the age of 8 until around 15 years old.
According to the proven facts of the conviction, the minor went to live with her little brother and her parents at her grandmother’s house, where the person now convicted also resided. In 2011, when the girl was eight years old, taking advantage of the coexistence and the fact that he was left in his care the abuse began.
This individual, “in order to satisfy his sexual desires”, said to the minor: “let’s go see something”, “let’s watch a video”, or quite simply “let’s go”, at the same time, “to break her will “. “He took her by the arm and led her to the room that the man shared with his paternal grandmother.
“Once there, he placed the cell phone in a drawer on his side of the bed playing a video of people having sex, he sat the minor on the bed next to him, even though other times she was lying down, he took her off. shirt and touched his hand and mouth, masturbating at the same time and going to the toilet before ejaculating, a mechanism that he repeated each time he committed these acts, which occurred more and more continuously, occurring once a week. or two at most”, indicates the judgment. This behavior intensified until he touched the genitals of the minor, with sexual access, on several occasions.
During the duration of the abuse, The girl didn’t say what was happening to her. “Because she was scared, she felt under pressure and she was scared because he was telling her that no one was going to believe her, that her grandmother loved him more than her and that everything was consensual.” As a result of these events, the minor suffered psychological damage for which she underwent psychological treatment.
For this reason, the Court sentences this man for a continuous offense of sexual assault with carnal access by vaginal insertion of bodily members, the victim being under 16 years of age, for which the author resorted to intimidation and took advantage of a situation of prevalence. . He is also prohibited from approaching the victim. less than 500 meters for 16 years. An appeal is possible.
