Overview

• A man in Valencia faces up to 16 years in prison after a court heard evidence of sexual assault against a 12-year-old customer at a l'Horta Nord fruit shop from October 2022.
• In Lugo, a Colombian national pleaded guilty to two rapes in 2019 and will serve six months of a 10-year term before being deported, reflecting a trend of reduced sentences in exchange for expulsion.
• The Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra issued a search and detention order for a social educator sentenced to 11 years for continuous sexual abuse of a foster minor in Vigo.
• New trials in Verín and Xàbia have begun for defendants accused of prolonged sexual offences, one facing up to 30 years in Ourense, another facing 12 years in Alicante.
• A victim in the sexual abuse case against former Valencian vice president Mónica Oltra appealed a second dismissal to demand that the case proceed to trial.