Overview

• The Sección Quinta of the Audiencia Provincial de Valencia cleared a man of alleged rape in a 2020 Tavernes de la Valldigna incident, concluding the encounter was mutually consensual.
• The ruling questioned the complainant’s credibility, citing witness accounts of sexualized behavior and noting a possible ulterior motive for the complaint.
• In a separate case set for trial on Monday, prosecutors say a man violently assaulted an unconscious minor in a València tourist flat in October 2021, and they provisionally seek eight years in prison.
• Another prosecution from Camp de Túria carries an initial 61-year request for multiple sexual assaults of a girl and child pornography, with allegations of abuse beginning when the child was 6–7.
• A different case to be heard this week involves an educator accused of raping his tutored partner with a mental disorder, for which the Fiscalía requests a 14-year sentence.