Overview

• The Tribunal Superior de Xustiza de Galicia ordered a December 2024 child-abuse conviction to be rewritten after finding that a judge’s signature error invalidated the formal integrity of the ruling.
• The rewrite will maintain the original five-year prison terms for each defendant and the €9,000 victim indemnity without requiring a new trial.
• A court staff strike in Vigo postponed the July 2 trial for alleged continuous sexual abuse of a minor from summer 2022, putting the hearing on hold until the strike ends.
• The Pontevedra prosecutor is seeking 11 years and 3 months in prison for the accused in the suspended Vigo case along with €10,000 in moral damages, a 20-year contact ban, eight years of supervised release and two decades of professional disqualification.
• On July 1, the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra acquitted a man of raping a sleeping woman in Vigo, citing inconsistent testimony and inconclusive forensic findings, with the verdict now facing possible appeal.