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Courts Across Spain Issue Mixed Sentences in Sexual and Gender Violence Cases

Procedural choices are shaping penalties across Galicia, Murcia, Asturias.

Overview

  • The Galician High Court reclassified a 2019 Ourense case from sexual abuse to sexual aggression, raising the sentence to six years in prison, with seven years of no contact, 11 years of disqualification from work with minors, and a €15,000 indemnity, with cassation still possible.
  • In Murcia, a plea deal for repeated abuse of a seven-year-old yielded a suspended two-year prison term, five years of restraining orders and supervision, 120 days of community service, and a €12,000 indemnity already paid, applying mitigation for damage repair and procedural delays.
  • A Gijón rape trial over an alleged assault on a woman with a recognized disability concluded its hearing and is now awaiting judgment, as prosecutors seek nine years in prison plus post-release supervision, long restraining measures, work disqualification involving minors, and partial expulsion.
  • An Ourense man who stalked his ex-partner accepted six months and one day in prison and three years of no contact, with the custodial term suspended contingent on two years without reoffending and completion of a gender equality course, after recognition of alcohol dependence as a mitigating factor.
  • A separate Ourense case ended with a €540 fine for coercion after months of persistent harassment of a waitress, resolved by plea agreement and noting the victim’s constant distress.