The Supreme confirms 12 years in prison for a civil guard for abusing his goddaughter

The three sentences in the case, to which elDiario.es has had access, reveal that the accused was an agent of the Civil Guard and that he had known the victim’s mother for years, to the point that he had been the godfather of the victim. girl at christening. As a result of this almost family relationship, the girl spent many Easter, Christmas and summer holidays at her house in the town of Almuñécar, in Granada, along with the rest of the pedophile’s family.

The civil guard, as confirmed by the Supreme Court, took advantage of the many moments he spent alone with his goddaughter to sexually abuse her. He first did it when the girl was 11 years old and perpetuated her abuse under threat of harming her family and abuse of her physical superiority as well as her ascendancy as her godfather. The abuses continued, according to the victim, for three years.

The young woman, as is usual in cases of child abuse by someone close to her, was slow to tell her mother what her godfather was doing, and did so when she suspected that he might also try to abuse her little sister. The pedophile began to insist to the victim’s mother that the little sister, who had just made communion, also come to Almuñécar with them to spend vacation periods. It was then that the victim explained to her mother why she did not want to return and why her little sister should not go to the civil guard’s house either, for fear that he would also abuse her.

The Supreme Court has just confirmed his sentence of 12 years in prison for a continuous crime of sexual abuse, although the case file reveals that he initially faced much longer sentences. The Prosecutor’s Office, for example, even requested more than half a century in prison, understanding that each episode of abuse should be considered as an autonomous crime, and not all a single crime of abuse. The private prosecution attributed, equally unsuccessfully, a crime of rape and not just sexual abuse. Neither of the two accusations appealed when, in the first instance, the Court of Granada imposed 12 years in prison for a single crime.

The Supreme Court’s criminal chamber explains in its resolution that the victim’s statement – who was already of legal age by the time the trial came – is “a basic piece of information” for the conviction of the civil guard, but it is not the only one and it is not , as his defense insisted, a “Machiavellian stratagem” to, as he alleged, get 150 euros that he had supposedly promised him for a trip.

This strategy to discredit the young woman’s testimony was also channeled in the trial through several testimonies that, according to the Superior Court of Andalusia, were “clearly oriented to favor” the agent. Testimonies not taken into account by the Justice that, for example, pointed to the girl’s alleged sexual behavior or drug use. She explained that it was the defendant who, during the abuse, provided her with marijuana in exchange for her submission.

A second civil guard, acquitted

The case, as revealed by the various sentences handed down throughout the procedure, started with two civil guards on the bench. As the Justice unanimously declares firmly proven, on one of the occasions the pedophile went to meet the victim accompanied by another younger civil guard with whom he was patrolling. The two, according to the judges, urged the minor to get into a vehicle with them and have oral sex with both of them in exchange for ten euros.

She refused and that specific episode was no more, the last one before she told her mother everything and the first complaint was filed. The Prosecutor’s Office even asked for six years in prison for him for a crime of corruption of minors, but the Court of Granada chose to acquit him and, in general, not to consider that sexual offer as something punishable for the two civil guards.

The judges of the Court understood that there was no evidence to show that this request to have oral sex in exchange for ten euros was not a joke by the two agents to the minor. The offer, the magistrates acknowledged, was “explicit” but they harbor “doubts” about whether it was a serious proposal or one with a sexual connotation. He considers that this comment was made “animated by an intention to humiliate and humiliate the victim, while presuming her dominance or ascendancy over the minor before her partner.”

According to the judges, the comment was humiliating but after several years of abuse he was not looking to have any sexual relationship. “There was no insistence in the request, according to the minor herself. She did not show him money, ”the judges settled. Her exculpation was not appealed by the Prosecutor’s Office or by the private prosecution. She told the court that “they told her seriously and that if she had agreed it would have happened” and revealed that, once at home, her godfather recriminated her that “she should have given him a blowjob and that she had left him looking stupid in front of of his partner.”

None of the more than ten judges who have studied the case have doubted at any time the victim’s account as to how and when the abuses occurred, or why she decided to file a complaint: so that her little sister won’t go through the same thing. She, reported the TSJ of Andalusia, “has always maintained the same version” against an exculpatory strategy of the agent who goes through accusing the minor of denouncing him moved by an undetermined economic objective.

His firm sentence of 12 years in prison for a continuous crime of sexual abuse not only implies that he will serve his sentence mandatory behind bars: he is also disqualified for six years from exercising any type of public employment and working with minors, and imposes the obligation to attend sex education programs. According to the regulations of the Civil Guard, in addition, being firmly convicted of an intentional crime “that causes serious damage to citizens” is a very serious offense and may involve their definitive expulsion from the body.