Cristóbal LC, 50, was a fruit seller in the town of Valdeavero (Madrid). One day, he invited a 15-year-old teenager to his home and penetrated her anally.despite their complaints. Now, Madrid Provincial Court The man nicknamed “El Toba” was sentenced to 19 years in prison for various crimes: 12 years for sexual assault on a child under 16 and a further 7 years for two counts of corruption against minors.
The sentence, which EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA has access to for the first time, is based on a wealth of evidence, such as a WhatsApp conversation between the now convicted man and his victim, dated 4 October. Among other frank statements can be read the statement “I just tipped, but it was like I was putting a tank.”
About First conviction against a man with more than a dozen pending cases for the same reasons: sexual assault and corruption of minors on other adolescents, always boys, residents of the town of Valdeavero. Gaining their trust, he invited them to his home pool and sexually assaulted them.
100 euros for sex with minors
The judges were of the opinion that it was proven that Cristóbal had contact with a child who was 15 years old at the time in the summer of 2020. He did this through a communication site and I knew exactly how old the boy was.because they were able to prove that he had previously asked the young man for his DNI.
At the end of July of the same year, he formed a WhatsApp group with this minor and another child of the same age. There he offered them money to have sexual intercourse with him. First 80 euros for two children; Then he increased his bid to 100, On the condition that the children send him sexually explicit videos and photos or make video calls: “If you want me to pay you more, you need to send me more photos to determine the gender,” he said.
On August 14, 2020, he sexually assaulted one of the boys. after he lied to her and told her he worked as a police officer. He took her to his house in Valdeavero, and when he got there, after inviting her to bathe in the pool, he told her [al niño] The sentence “reminds him that he has to do what he wants and that he will not let him leave the house until he does it, that he is a police officer” is stated as a proven fact.
fake police
“After gaining their trust Gaining a certain amount of influence by claiming to be a local police officer Being able to stay home alone with a minor requires him or her to have sexual intercourse. “Even though the minor said he did not want it at that moment, the defendant took him to a room and managed to break his will by using enough force.”
“Although the little one wanted to be left alone (…) when he entered, he pushed him towards the bed, forcibly pulled down his trousers, and although the little one tried to resist by kicking, he managed to enter anally.” the judges’ letter. It was this incident that motivated the minor to tell the facts to his parents and file a complaint.
In addition to the sexual assault on August 14, the court also took into account WhatsApp conversations with two teenagers in which he asked for pornographic material from them, knowing that they were underage. He directly asked for “compromised photos” and he would refer to them as “kind” or command them that he wanted to “see the body.”
“There are children at home”
The judges insist on the following sentence: “The defendant has not offered any credible explanation. He completely denies the facts. He acknowledges the conditions of his home and vehicle, which match the minor’s account, but (…) argues that: randomly framed by a stranger because you have seen the features of your home.
Regarding the secret conversations that investigators found on his phone, Cristóbal merely said that he “implied in the past and unambiguously that there were children in the house and that tablets and other devices were around and that there was a possibility that a third party may have carried out this incident.” They used their devices,” the judge concludes.
Despite all this, the judges sentenced the fruit seller to 12 years in prison for sexual assault on a child under the age of 16, another 5 years for the corruption case against minors against the same victim, and 2 more years for the same crime. old against other little ones The person he included in his WhatsApp group and from whom he asked for sexual photos and videos.
Pending cases
This is not the only case pending for Toba, a native of Alcalá de Henares, who has resided and operated a grocery store in Valdeavero for more than a decade. Cristóbal had two children who were underage at the time of the events, and he used the youngest (a boy) to befriend boys his own age who played football, later inviting them to his home’s pool and then allegedly sexually assaulting them. . There is more than one Families of dozens of minors took legal action against Cristóbal at the municipality.
One of these pending cases resulted in a new request from the Prosecutor’s Office last April. sexual exploitation of minors, indecent exposure and corruption crimes nature in relation to another 15-year-old boy, to whom the fruit seller offered via Whatsapp a sexual intercourse for 100 euros, “requested him to send him a photo of his genitals” and sent him the same photos. The events were investigated by the Instruction Court No. 6 of Alcalá de Henares. A further 5-year prison sentence is requested for Toba.
EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA spoke with Juan Manuel Medina, the lawyer of many of the complainants, who said: “This sentence did not surprise us. We were aware that there was a parallel case to the one in which we were involved, and this confirms what we said.” “He is a sexual harasser with uncontrollable sexual urges towards men, and this is the first of the sentences that will be given to him. We want a total prison sentence of 105 years.”