The Seville Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking a total sentence of thirty years for a man who “habitually abused” his wife, with whom he had been in a marital relationship for nine years, and committed “sexual behavior without her consent”, which was recorded “under threat” of distribution, and who even offered his friends or Internet users “sexual relations” with her in order to “pay off his outstanding debts or obtain drugs”. For all these reasons, the State Department considers the defendant to be the perpetrator of a crime of habitual domestic abuse, the serious subtype of commission committed in the family home in the presence of minors; two rape offenses, one crime of incitement to prostitution and one crime of abuse without injury in the family environment of the serious subtype of commission in the family home, for which he is requesting prison sentences of between one and twelve years.
According to the prosecutor’s preliminary conclusions document, consulted by Europa Press, during the years of marriage, the victim had suffered “habitual abuse at the hands of her husband, consisting of beatings, pushes” and other “degrading behavior”, such as that of the main defendant.
These were some of the behaviors that appear in the document as acts that “used his wife as an object, disposed of her and her sexuality without her consent, and subjected her to degrading acts such as sharing sex with third parties at the defendant’s request, without proving that she suffered injuries as a result of not seeking medical attention.”
These behaviors, the State Department continues, “were aggressively and recklessly part of the relationship dynamic of the couple, whereby the defendant’s position consisted of absolute psychological and physical dominance and submission to the injured party, showing signs of habitual and specific abuse towards him and of an asymmetrical relationship within the couple.”
In this way, as dictated by the prosecution, “as a result of the annulment of his will, which this situation meant for the victim, the victim did not resist the sexual relations that the defendant demanded of her and the injured party had to endure them against her will in order to avoid conflict or attacks on her or their common daughter.” This refers to a specific point in 2012 when the defendant had sexual relations with the victim while “she was sleeping under the influence of alcohol that she had consumed the night before, which caused her injuries.”
While living with the person under investigation, he “abused his superiority and the neediness of the victim who was financially dependent on him, researched on the Internet and offered his friends and acquaintances sexual relationships with the woman in order to settle his outstanding debts with these people or to obtain narcotics of which he was a consumer.”
In addition, according to the public prosecutor’s office, “on a date not recorded in 2017 and in the family’s home, he repeatedly hit the family’s youngest daughter, born in 2013, on the back, without any evidence of injury as she was not examined by a doctor.”
In addition, according to the public prosecutor’s office, on an unspecified date in 2016, the main accused and the second accused tied the victim in the bedroom in order to have sexual relations with her “against her will”.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the reported incidents are a crime of habitual abuse in the domestic environment, in its more severe form in the domestic environment and in the presence of minors; two rape offenses, one crime of incitement to prostitution and one crime of abuse without injury in the family environment.
Thus, it considers the victim’s husband to be the perpetrator of the crimes described, while it considers the second defendant to be an accomplice in one of the rape crimes.
The public prosecutor’s office has imposed sentences of between one and twelve years in prison for the above-mentioned crimes, which corresponds in total to a request by the public prosecutor’s office of 30 years in prison for the defendant. For the second, who is considered a co-author of the second rape offense, he is demanding twelve years in prison.
Likewise, within the scope of civil liability, both defendants must pay the victim compensation in the amount of 20,000 euros for moral damage plus statutory interest.
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