The Provincial Court of Alicante’s Third Section has sentenced a home repair worker to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a child. The man was found guilty of touching and doing other sexual things to a 15-year-old girl in a residence where he had been employed to work.
For 10 years, the convicted man can’t get within 500 euros of the victim or talk to her in any way, including via phone, email, letter, or in person. According to a statement from the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, he must additionally pay the youngster 10,000 euros for the emotional pain she went through because of the attack. The sentence, which is not final and can be appealed to the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, says that the convicted man could be sent back to his home country instead of serving time in prison if he is granted parole or third-degree prison status.
On the morning of May 7th, 2022, the defendant went to a house in Alicante where he had been employed to put up mirrors and fix some cables. The handyman is said to have talked to the homeowner’s 15-year-old daughter while he was there. The court ruling’s description of established facts says that the male caressed the girl’s breasts and buttocks and sought to kiss her without her permission. The victim said no and proceeded to the couch to watch TV. The man who was found guilty did the same thing again and even slid his hand inside the girl’s trousers and caressed her private parts for a few minutes. The adolescent turned him down again and went into a room. He followed her, lay down on the bed, and kept stroking her private areas and doing other sexual things. The girl then started to cry, and the man who is now in jail left the house, telling her, “I’ll bring condoms next time your mother calls me.” The victim’s mother told the police about the event soon after hearing her daughter’s story, which included a vaginal abrasion. The trial took place on February 2nd at the Provincial Court of Alicante.
The defendant denied the charges and tried to explain the mother’s complaint by saying that it was due to a disagreement over the price of the work, the girl’s distress when she found out the man had a partner, or the complainants’ desire to get certain documents. The court, on the other hand, did not believe these explanations and recognised the girl’s story as true, whose statement has stayed the same and is considered “credible” without understanding “in the way of expressing the story elements that allow one to suspect fabrication,” while also rejecting any ulterior motive and stressing that the accused admitted to making a sexual advance toward her and that the family found her crying and “terrified and inconsolable.”
