The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) ratifies the acquittal of a 72-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a minor when she was 13 years old.
The TSJCyL thus reaffirms the sentence, appealed by the victim, which was pronounced by the Provincial Court of Salamanca, considering that it did not have sufficient evidence to support the accusations.
The events date back to 2018, when the accused, who was a close friend of the minor’s family, allegedly touched the young girl three times while she was alone.
Events which would have taken place at the end of October 2018 and in the summer of 2019. It was not until December 2020 that the minor told a sex counselor at the school and then to her mother about the incidents that they had then reported.
However, the sentence proves that until that date the relationship between the accused and the family was maintained, including with the minor, with whom he spoke on different occasions to meet through the messaging application instant WhatsApp.
Thus, the Salamanca Provincial Court ruled on March 7 of this year that it was not proven that the accused had committed the acts denounced.
After that, the victim’s family filed an appeal which has now been rejected by the TSJCyL and it will therefore be they who will have to pay the costs of the procedure. Now the court’s decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court.
