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A Spanish citizen sentenced to 30 years in prison in Bolivia for rape of minors and child pornography

A Spanish citizen sentenced to 30 years in prison in Bolivia for rape of minors and child pornography

MADRID 11 Oct. () –

The Departmental Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz, in Bolivia, announced this Thursday that a 58-year-old man with Spanish nationality has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for rape of minors and child pornography after he was arrested earlier this week in a operation in which the authorities found cameras and cell phones used in the commission of the criminal acts.

Prosecutor Roger Mariaca has explained that the evidence has been presented before the jurisdictional authority and that the person under investigation has decided to opt for an abbreviated procedure, for which he has obtained the maximum sentence, according to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office.

For his part, the prosecutor specializing in gender-based crimes, Ricardo Caballero, has indicated that this decision “implies that he has recognized that he has participated in this act as the author of the crime of aggravated rape because it is a girl and, also, with the aggravating factors because this, unfortunately, has not happened once.”

“Likewise, he has acknowledged that he has committed the act of pornography because evidently this was stored on a mobile device and in the cloud,” the prosecutor declared before the media, reminding them that the case is under investigation. judicial reserve.

On the date of the arrest, the officials rescued an eight-year-old girl, who would be the accused’s granddaughter-in-law and who would have been the victim of various sexual assaults by the subject since she was three years old.

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