“We can send someone to beat you up, we can send someone to shoot you between your eyebrows, people come and No one will know who you are, you’ve been warned”. These threats, already serious and intimidating, are even more socially worrisome if the person making them is only a fifteen-year-old minor and is directed at a thirteen-year-old classmate. suffers tyranny because you are transgender.
This No. 1 Juvenile Court Valencia applied a precaution to the author of the threats. twelve months probation for obstruction of justice. As the minor admitted in the suitability trial, his intention was to condition his victim not to testify against a friend who was eventually convicted of certain crimes. death threats before the same child, she was immersed in a transgender treatment.
In this second case of minors, Valencia’s Juvenile Court number four placed a four-month measure of socio-educational duties on social competence and impulse control for two crimes of minor threat and injury. According to the facts proven in the sentence and which he himself admitted, he threatened the transgender child with the following words: “I’m Gonna Blow Your Head” anyone “No matter how they punish you, I will kill you”. He also hit him in the face with his open hand, causing injuries to his left jaw.
The judge assigns one twelve months probation and the other four months socio-educational duties.
The source of both incidents of violence that resulted in corrective measures for minors is a bicycle theft in July last year, in a town in Camp de Túria, where both the victim and the convict were trained, which this newspaper did not disclose to protect. anonymity of minors. According to the victim’s complaint at the time, a group of classmates from the institute who made fun of him and made fun of him as “transformer and transgender”, they insisted one of the girls steal her ex-boyfriend’s bike. He explained that for this reason, they put pressure on him and that if he did not do this, they would not accept him into their group.
Later, some minors from this group damaged the bike, and the trans boy went to the owner of the bike to apologize for taking the bike and blamed those who did the damage.
The minors on file sought to condition their victims after accusations of bike theft.
In this context, the sentence details that there was an argument between the minor in the file and the victim in mid-July 2021. This is because the attacked “He was held responsible for theft and damage to the bike. two girls who are mutual friends of the two”. Meanwhile, the convict asked him for an explanation, threatened to “break his head” and beat him.
Subsequently, four days before the complainant went to testify at the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office regarding the incident in question, the other convicted juvenile approached him at the exit of the institute “in order to restrict his freedom”. “Next day 24 You have to say that everything is a lie, that they did nothing to you., nothing happened. If you don’t—he says his name—if they put my friend in the center, we’ll beat him up and kill him again.” The little boy, afraid of going out and going back to school.
A hate crime as the background at the root of the threats
Although they were sentenced not for such a hate crime, but for obstruction of justice, one for obstruction of justice, and the other for minor injury and threat, the root of this is harassment where the victim is allegedly receiving treatment. . According to the complaint, this group of colleagues regularly bullies him for his condition and pressures him to steal a bike “if he wants them to accept him as he is”.