Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Regional Courts Recast Spanish Sex-Abuse Cases: Ávila Term Cut, Gijón Ruling Overturned, Torrelavega Trial Ongoing

The latest decisions signal appellate scrutiny of proof plus sentencing deals across regions.

Overview

  • Castilla y León’s high court cut from seven to four years the prison time a man must serve in Ávila before expulsion for assaulting his partner’s 10-year-old daughter, restoring the term agreed with prosecutors.
  • The Audiencia de Ávila had earlier converted a 10-year prison sentence into expulsion after custody but unilaterally raised the custodial requirement to seven years, which triggered the appeal.
  • Asturias’s high court annulled a five-years-and-one-day conviction against a Gijón father over alleged touching during Christmas 2022, citing the presumption of innocence, family conflict, and a lack of peripheral corroboration.
  • In Torrelavega, the accused father denied abusing his daughter during the spring 2020 lockdown as the victim reaffirmed her testimony; the prosecutor keeps an eight-and-a-half-year prison request.
  • The three proceedings now stand at different points in the system, with one sentence reduced on appeal, one conviction voided, and one trial ongoing in a domestic-abuse context.