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Spanish Courts Hand Down Major Sentences in Three Child Sex Abuse Cases

Platform alerts plus device forensics underpinned the investigations leading to these convictions.

Overview

  • Alicante: a Paraguayan resident accepted a plea and received 18 years and nine months for assaulting a two-year-old, with a 10-year post‑release restraining order, €30,000 compensation, and an order to destroy seized material.
  • Investigators in the Alicante case acted after a Google cloud alert routed via the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, leading to a March 14, 2025 arrest and nine months of preventive custody, with separate proceedings in Paraguay expected for material recorded there.
  • Salamanca: the provincial court imposed 14 years and six months after finding roughly 6,000 child sexual files, including 55 self‑made videos, following a 2022 Telegram tip, house search, and seizure of multiple devices.
  • The Salamanca ruling includes no‑contact orders with victims, seven years of supervised release, and a work ban involving people under 25, adding two years and six months for a continued offense of discovery of secrets.
  • Córdoba: a woman was sentenced to three years and one day for repeated abuse of a 12‑year‑old, with the court citing corroborated victim testimony, imposing contact bans, supervised release, a work disqualification, and €9,000 in damages, with an appeal allowed.