The High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) has confirmed a seven-year prison sentence imposed on a man for storing and sharing child pornography files discovered on electronic devices at his home.
The Civil and Criminal Chamber dismissed the appeal lodged against the judgement delivered in June 2025 by the First Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante. Alongside the custodial sentence, the convicted man must complete seven years of supervised release and pay court costs.
The ruling considers it proven that, from at least September 2020, the man shared photographs and videos of naked minors or minors in sexual situations. Certain items of material depicted newborn babies and minors subjected to acts of extreme violence and degradation.
Investigative findings confirmed that the offender sent and received hundreds of illicit files. Between August and October 2021, he exchanged more than 1,300 photographs and videos with another user.
The Guardia Civil searched his home on 24th November 2021 following authorisation from a court in Benidorm. During the operation, carried out by the Technological Crimes Brigade, officers seized extensive material stored on a mobile phone and a laptop computer.
The sentence highlighted the extreme severity of several videos showing newborn babies and restrained or beaten minors, noting that these images displayed a heightened level of brutality, humiliation and degradation.
In the appeal, the defence requested a complete exemption or mitigating circumstances based on the psychological state of the convicted man, presenting a psychiatric report diagnosing him with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder linked to childhood sexual abuse. However, the TSJCV concluded that the Provincial Court of Alicante properly evaluated this report and correctly ruled that the condition did not impair his ability to understand the illegality of his actions or direct his conduct freely.
The defence also argued that the seven-year prison sentence was disproportionate within the legal range of five to nine years. The court rejected this argument, ruling that the inclusion of babies and the extreme severity of the files fully justified the duration of the sentence. The appeal judgment is not final and remains subject to a potential appeal before the Supreme Court.
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