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Supreme Court Reduces Sentence and Removes Job-Loss Penalty for Corporal Convicted of Sexual Abuse

Upholding the corporal’s conviction with a €44,776 compensation award, the court found the initial penalties exceeded proportional limits

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Overview

  • The Supreme Court reduced the corporal’s prison term by six months on proportionality grounds, setting it at five years.
  • Justices annulled the military tribunal’s loss-of-employment sanction after ruling it lacked sufficient justification.
  • The court upheld convictions for sexual abuse, harassment and abuse of authority against a subordinate.
  • The ruling confirmed the corporal must pay €44,776 to the victim for documented psychological harm and moral injury.
  • The judgment clarified that review was confined to sanction proportionality and left all factual findings from 2017 to 2021 intact.