A Soria Criminal Court sentenced the man who slapped his wife live on TikTok on January 28th to one year in prison and issued a restraining order. I really thank the judge who signed this sentence twice. First for speed. The verdict comes hot, and while the shameful attack is still remembered, it caused great public alarm. Second, because the victim wrote it against himself. As it will be remembered, a young woman was suddenly slapped in front of everyone while chatting with three other boys on the social network, and she did not want to ignore the participants in the video and asked what had happened. it was new. It didn’t take long for the post to go viral. Reflection of the act of violence led the couple to explain in another broadcast that this was an agreed-upon performance, a joke they made to get the money they needed to go on vacation. These were not believed, as he first blamed his own father and gave other contradictory statements. Two days later, police continued to arrest him for gender-based violence when both went to the police station to report the man’s online insults and harassment. The prosecution opened the case ex officio, as the victim always refused to file a lawsuit against her husband and even reported that he had been beaten twice before. Despite this resistance and justification, the magistrate found the man guilty of ill-treatment in the field of violence against women and prevented him from approaching the man for three years. “Publicly and notoriously assaulted his wife in front of thousands of people in an attempt to undermine her physical integrity and humiliate her in public,” the sentence reads. The victim spoke in another video, accusing the judge of “separating a family”. Hard to believe but true. “He’s everything to me. Everyone may have an opinion on this (aggression), but no one knows how I am, and the judge doesn’t know who he is convicting,” complains the young woman, interpreting a line by the singer Quevedo, “and now I value you more than I do one day.” Luckily, the rule of law has laws that reggaeton doesn’t understand.
It will be difficult for the system to enforce the restraining order when the woman herself does not want to break her ties. But the very valuable and exemplary message is something else and goes to sexist criminals. It doesn’t matter why your victim turns a blind eye to abuse: fear, emotional attachment, lack of resources or perceived danger, cultural acceptance of surrender, misunderstood guilt. If you hit a woman, the system will look for you, find you, and punish you regardless of forgiveness from her. Violence against women should not be seen as an interpersonal issue, it concerns the whole society; He deserves to be condemned whether he consents or not. Every piece of equipment that moves to enforce business feminism and the law. It’s a difficult feminism because it doesn’t have the first collaboration that deals with the administration of justice, but it’s not impossible either. Especially in these times of extreme exposure, when the machirulos dare to act like this in public and dare to record their crimes as a blessing, believing that they will eventually get out of trouble.
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