“If you tell your parents about any of this, I’ll tell some of my friends that they’ll come to your house in a van and destroy your entire family.” How Cristóbal LC, nicknamed ‘Toba’, forced a 12-year-old boy to keep his unspeakable secrets, according to the prosecutor’s brief: Cristóbal had sexually assaulted her.
Like this, many other statements collected in tax reports reveal how ‘Toba’, a 50-year-old fruit seller from the municipality of Valdeavero (Madrid), threatened young people by allegedly sexually harassing them in his home. All males under 15 years of age. He tricked them by offering them candy and free bags of nuts.So he buys your silence.
Cristóbal LC had multiple pending cases for: corruption of minors and sexual assault of minors under the age of 16. On October 4, Cristóbal was sentenced to 19 years in prison by the 30th Division of the Madrid Provincial Court, according to El Periódico de España of the Prensa Ibérica group. 12 years for sexual assault on a 15-year-old child and another 7 years for two counts of corruption against minors.
“My son will hit you”
“If you tell anyone, I will tell my son and he will hit you.” There is a document obtained from the prosecutor’s office stating that he told one of the children who was attacked that he was 12 years old at the time of the events. The child said that when she went shopping at the grocery store, Cristóbal forced her by promising to give her something.
Once inside, he showed her pornographic images “so she could learn” and sexually assaulted her. Once this kid pulled down his pants and put on a show. “vigorous masturbation movements that caused at least one minor bleeding”According to the prosecutor’s text.
Another of the complaining children who allegedly committed the crime warned, “Don’t say anything, because this is something that should stay between us.” According to the little boy’s testimony, several times he took advantage of his physical superiority to make her lie on the floor of the grocery store, pull down her pants and perform oral sex on her. The child was 9 years old at the time of the events..
After learning that someone had allegedly harassed him and made a report, he told another boy in town that “if he found out about the people who reported him, he would call some of the friends he had so he could get information about them.” He was killing them and putting them in a van, and nothing was known about them anymore,” the ratings show.
children’s friend
The fruit vendor’s ‘mode of operation’ was always the same: Attracted the attention of children from the municipalities of Valdeavero and VillalbillaTaking advantage of the fact that he had a son the same age as the victims. Children came together to play football and gained their trust. A charismatic and well-liked man in the town (at the time), who was constantly playing pranks on the children and entertaining them with gifts. A character that made him known as the “child’s friend” among his neighbors.
Once they gained their trust, it was common for children to stop by the Keai grocery store.. Inside, Toba, who, according to the prosecutor, had an uncontrollable sexual desire for boys of this age, greeted them by touching their genitals (the top and bottom of their clothes) or praising their bodies. He would often pull down their trousers and show them to other children, shouting “how big you are”.
According to ratings, This pattern of abuse was repeated among all the boys who complained. Most subsequently required “psychological treatment for symptoms of anxiety, post-traumatic stress (…) and the emergence of anxious-depressive symptoms that predominate in the anxious domain and are consistent with childhood sexual abuse.”
on freedom
In the end, there were 16 children who filed complaints against Cristóbal for the events. They were mostly produced in the summer of 2020. In December of the same year, a judge from Alcalá de Henares ordered him placed in temporary prison, but the same court ordered his release ten months later.
In the judge’s briefing the decision to release ‘Toba’ was discussed because he confirmed Cristóbal’s roots and assured: “There is currently no risk of flight or recidivism.” The magistrate sentenced Precautionary measures for persons under investigation, such as the obligation to appear in court on a weekly basis, a ban on leaving Spain or a ban on entering and residing in the town of Valdeavero.
The judge also issued a restraining order and banned contact with ten of the underage complainants. Relatives of the victims launched a series of public protests in which Valdeavero residents participated. Some neighbors also drew graffiti against him. However, being released Some victims and their relatives encountered him on the street.
The Madrid Provincial Court recently sentenced Cristóbal to 19 years in prison for a similar case, but this is a different case from the Valdeavero children’s case. The case of the town’s children, defended by lawyer Juan Manuel Medina, has already been scheduled for October 2024, just one year later. The prosecutor asked for 98 years, and the special prosecutor’s office asked for a total of 105 years.