The victim became pregnant and the man asked her to lie to her parents, telling them that she had had sex with another minor.
CASTELLÓN, SPAIN.- A tennis teacher admitted that he attacked a 14-year-old student, the same one she got pregnant and had an abortion. The aggressor apologized to the victim and his family during a trial that took place yesterday, Monday, in the second section of the Provisional Court of Castellón, the New York Post reported.
During his statement, the man accepted his guilt of the charges against him and showed his “total regret” by asking for forgiveness from the minor and the family. At the end of the trial, the public prosecutor reduced the sentence requested for the accused, who faces charges for a continued crime of sexual assault to a minor under 16 years of age.
The sentence was reduced from 18 to 10 years in prison, based on the defendant’s recognition of the facts and the fact that he has covered civil liability. In this section, the prosecution requested compensation of 50 thousand euros for the victim for moral damage and 1,955.90 euros for the Generalitat for the assistance provided to the minor.
Furthermore, the prosecution has requested the special disqualification of the accused to practice any professiontrade or activity, paid or unpaid, that involves regular and direct contact with minors for a period of 20 years.
It is also requested that a measure be imposedand supervised release for a period of 10 years after serving the sentence, as well as the prohibition of approaching the victim within 500 meters, whether at their home, workplace or any other place they frequent. Also you would be prohibited from communicating with her by any means or procedure for 20 years.
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He took advantage of the trust
The prosecutor explained that between September 2022 and April 2023, the accused, in his capacity as a tennis teacher and taking advantage of the trust that the minor’s parents had placed in him, He began to show a special interest in his athletic performance.
He paid more attention to her than the other students, and he personally picked her up from her house to take her to training. Furthermore, he took her to a his property that he does not live in, where there is a gym, with the excuse of doing additional physical training. It was in that house where the subject raped the minor.
The minor became pregnant
When the victim told her attacker that her period was late, the man knelt down and begged her not to tell her parents anything. asked him to lie to them saying that he had had relations with another minor and that nothing would happen that way, that if he told them the truth they would send him to jail.
The minor subsequently underwent a voluntary termination of pregnancy procedure. Two expert psychologists who were proposed by the prosecutor in charge of the case, They confirmed that the events described by the minor were “clear, coherent and meaningful.”determined that although they did not observe psychological damage in the victim, she did present problems of anxiety and discomfort regarding sex.
Likewise, the experts of the Barcelona Institute of Toxicologyafter analyzing samples of the fetal remains of the victim’s unborn child, confirmed that the accused is the biological father. Both the prosecution and the defense have aligned themselves with the final conclusions document presented by the public ministry, which has requested a conviction.
The defense has requested that the ruling consider that the accused has repaired the damage and has asked for forgiveness on two occasions. The trial has been pending sentencing.
