Overview

• The Juzgado de Violencia sobre la Mujer nº 2 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria sentenced a man to 12 months and one day after he threw a four-month-old podenco off a coastal cliff, killing the animal.
• Magistrate Auxiliadora Díaz linked the animal-cruelty offense with psychological maltreatment under article 153.1, characterizing the act as violencia vicaria to assert the court’s competence.
• The defendant admitted the facts in a fast-track hearing on September 22 and accepted the penalty, making the sentence final.
• The custodial term was suspended because he had no prior record and the sentence is under two years, and he is barred from approaching or contacting the victim for two years and one day.
• The judgment records that the woman suffered psychological injury requiring initial medical care with an estimated 90-day recovery.