Agents specializing in sexual violence by the National Police, other Two sexual assaults at dawn on Sunday in two apartments in Valencia and TorrentA 19-year-old girl and a 21-year-old girl were victims. The suspect’s mother is being investigated. rapistminor for trying to buy the victim’s silence He offers him a certain amount of money in exchange for not reporting his son.
The first of the sexual assaults occurred in a house in l’Eixample in Valencia.. According to information obtained by Levante-EMV, the events started with two young people from another autonomous community who came to Valencia to spend a few days at a nightlife venue in the city.
Apparently, 18 and 19 year old girls met two guys and, after leaving their institution, they were invited to go to one of their own in l’Eixample, taking advantage of their parents’ absence.
It was once on the ground one of the youths, a minor, neglected the girl’s refusal to have sexual intercourse with him and was alleged to have sexually assaulted him. Hours later, the young woman went to a hospital in Valencia, where she was recognized by the Gynecology service, which activated the sexual offenses protocol. The coroner on duty, who came looking for the young woman, confirmed the existence of physical injuries consistent with non-consensual sex, which started the National Police Family and Women’s Care Unit (UFAM) sexual assault expert group.
Just then, while the young woman was interviewing the Police, The mother of the alleged perpetrator sent several messages offering her money in return for not filing a complaint about her son.
Added to this aggression is another attack that occurred earlier on Sunday, but this time on Torrent. At the exit of a Valencia nightclub, a stranger approached the 21-year-old victim and offered him shelter at home, taking advantage of the fact that the girl had been left alone after arguing with her friend. spend the night. night.
The girl accepted the offer of the young man. and they both took a taxi to Torrent, to his house. While there, the previous scene was repeated: the man finally sexually assaulted her.
The victim, who asked for help from a neighbor in the same building who asked for help from the 112 emergency phone number, arrested the suspect, who allegedly sexually harassed him, minutes later, a patrol car came to the house. other agents escorted the girl to a hospital center in Valencia to undergo a gynecological examination and related sampling.
The number of known sexual offenses (reported) in C. Valenciana in 2021 is 2,143 – almost every six a day, or every four hours – which means 43.1% growth over the previous year. . Penetrating assault (rape), the most serious sexual crime, increased by approximately 27% from 186 to 236 over the same period.
In the city of Valencia alone, 61 violations were recorded last year, that is twenty more violations than the entire pandemic year 2020, thus the percentage growth was almost 50%. The situation is even more alarming if we compare the numbers to 2022: Penetrating sexual assaults in the city of Valencia rose 114.3% in the first quarter alone. Secondly, although we are already in August and closing on June 30, Internal Affairs has not yet provided data.
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