The verdict in the case of the gang rape of a loose-confident, 14-year-old girl in Spain for the outrage. Women’s rights and lawyers for Reform of the criminal law, which prevented according to experts, tougher penalties against the defendants called for activists on Friday.
In the process, the judgment was handed down on Thursday because of the Offence of sexual abuse, not rape – the length of the detention was met, therefore, much lower.
a Total of seven men were accused of gang rape, to which he was in October 2016 on the edge of a Party on an abandoned factory site in Manresa in Catalonia come. Two were spoken to by the court in Barcelona free, must be because of sexual abuse between the ages of ten and twelve years in prison.
child unconscious – and that’s why no violence
the court dropped the charge of sexual violence – the equivalent of the charge of rape in the Spanish law. The justification stated that the victim use of drugs and alcohol “had been in unconscious state” and the defendant “any intimidation or violence used” to have. This caused the whole country to indignation.
“The Problem is not the judgment, the Problem is our criminal law,” he said on Friday, the spokeswoman of the Association of judges for democracy in Catalonia, Montserrat Comas. The criminal law that it had to be proved for the charge of rape, that it came to intimidation or violence.
The Spanish law should quickly be amended so that each Sex would be treated without consent as rape. “The thing is terrible, especially, because we are talking about an underage at the age of 14 years,” added Comas.
The case is reminiscent of another in the Northern Spanish city of Pamplona from the past year, the provided in Spain, for great indignation, and ten had driven thousands of women to protest on the streets. After the rape of an 18-Year-old at the Taurus festival of San Fermín in the year 2016, the five men had not been sentenced for “rape”, but because of “sexual abuse” – even though they had filmed the act. (anf/sda)
Created: 02.11.2019, 10:38 PM
