Overview

• The Audiencia Provincial de A Coruña, Audiencia de Palma and Audiencia de Pontevedra imposed eight, nine and five-year prison sentences in cases spanning a cousin’s rape, a Sineu portal attack and abuse of a vulnerable minor
• Argentine authorities arrested a 34-year-old stepfather in Buenos Aires on suspicion of raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter and charged a 36-year-old man in Guaymallén with aggravated sexual abuse and robbery after an armed hostel attack
• Investigators in Ferrol reclassified the reported rape allegation as a false complaint after the 18-year-old recanted, and the detained suspect was released under court-ordered restrictions
• Policía Local de València freed a woman held captive for three days in Quatre Carreres, arresting her alleged abuser after she displayed bruises and burns inflicted by a heated spoon
• Prosecutor Horacio Vázquez imputed two security guards in Córdoba for Brenda Torres’s homicide, with ongoing forensic analyses to determine motive and potential femicide charges