The Supreme Court also confirmed A man and a woman were sentenced to 16 years in prison for three times moral, physical and sexual abuse of their three-year-old daughter. Violent beatings, insults and threats by the mother and rape by the father at her home in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The Criminal Division granted a sentence, which EFE had access to and dismissing the couple’s appeal against the Canary Islands Supreme Court’s decision of the Las Palmas Court, which affirmed another.
In addition to imprisonment, the court Prohibition of approaching and communicating with minors for 16 years.
truths accused by two relatives of the accused, his sister and a nieceUntil the one who lived with her family and witnessed several beatings the girl was subjected to, decided to record the audio of one of these episodes from the next room to have proof of what she was going to tell.
It all happened between January and May 2016, a period when the three-year-old girl was exposed. constant physical and psychological abuse at her home in Las Palmas by her mother.
The mother specifically shouted at the little girl, hitting all parts of her body with her hand. “With all kinds of insults and humiliation, loud shouting and various threats.”
This is what happened when he shouted and insulted his daughter on May 26, 2016.silly; damn fool; you are a callus; Bastard; son of a bitch” and also “crying in the park; shut up you idiot; I’m ballin’ with you; you are pain; Chicken; always the same shit”.
Fully aware of these facts, the father did nothing to prevent it, other than telling the mother not to hit the girl, and agreed bad treatments to the little one, In his room, they were both consuming drugs—crack and marijuana. He was also bathing only once a week and was malnourished.
But besides the harassment, became a small victim sexual abuse by her father, who raped her own daughter without specifying how many times.. It is a situation that the mother is fully aware of, facilitates and consents to.
The parents claim in their source that the minor did not testify at the oral hearing and was not heard in the expected test.
However, the Supreme Court decided that “in response to expert reports recommending that the minor not repeat the experiences arising from the events, given his age, its manifestations should be applied with specially arranged persons and doctors, possible minor damage to the development of the minor’s personality, as well as their recording”.
They say this fact demonstrates the sensitivity of the court and the juvenile to avoid disturbing effects on their development and problems of secondary victimization.