The Xustiza de Galicia High Court (TSXG) upheld the 24-year sentence handed down to a man in July this year by the fourth division of the Pontevedra County Court. repeatedly raping her daughter since she was 5, until she reported her when she was almost 17.Charged with sexually abusing his wife from 1990 to 2019 and inflicting habitual psychic violence on her since 2019 since they were married.
The Civil and Criminal Division rejects the appeal made by the convict, as well as continuing to change the sentence imposed in the implementation of the new law on the integrated guarantee of sexual freedom.
The court explains that reducing the sentence for sexual assault from six to four years is not appropriate because the accused and the victim are married. “Therefore, we are faced with not only the sexual assault crime of Article 179 of the TPC, but also the aggravated subtype of Article 180.4 (in the new text).when the victim is or has been a wife or woman Those who have been or have been linked to a similar affective relationship even without living together), whose penalty ranges from seven to fifteen years,” the judges stressed, “in the legality block currently in effect, the minimum sentence would be seven years according to proven facts.” They therefore concluded that the sentence of the Pontevedra State Court, approved by the TSXG, had been given “in favor of the accused”.
Pontevedra Court, in addition to 15 years in prison for repeatedly committing sexual assault on a minor with a prevailing family relationship over her daughter, prohibition of communicating with and approaching his daughter as well as compensation of 50,000 euros for 10 years longer than the term of the prison sentence imposed. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison for the crimes of habitual psychic violence and sexual assault against his wife, and a prohibition from approaching and communicating with him, 13 years more than the prison sentence imposed on him. Payment compensation of 15,000 Euros.