• Events: The 'pack of minors' who raped a girl, besieged by evidence
  • Trial: The girl victim of the 'herd of minors' in Alicante is ratified before the judge

The four minors who were tried last week for raping a 15-year-old schoolmate simultaneously and videotaped him in a town in Alicante have been convicted of these events. In the ruling, the magistrate acknowledges that there was sexual assault and imposes imprisonment in a center that ranges between two and a half years and three , compared to the five requested by the Prosecutor.

All of them must compensate the victim with 12,000 euros . The leader must spend three years in a center and two others on probation in addition to the prohibition of approaching the victim within 500 meters for five years. The detention time for the other two will be two and a half years.

The judge makes a separate mention for one of the boys who did not actively participate in the events but performed the surveillance functions to notify the rest in case someone came while they were abusing the victim. He will spend two years in the center . The judge understands that she acted as a necessary cooperator. The judicial decision was announced yesterday to the parties only four days after the case was seen for sentencing, as the two trial sessions were held last week. In them, the victim was ratified in his complaint while the now convicted fell into multiple contradictions that clashed with what they had declared when they were arrested.

One of the agents stated that one of the minors admitted to him that the sexual assault had occurred on the same terms as the victim explained . Another of them recognized when he was arrested that he had recorded a short video while his other two friends had sexual relations with the victim, represented by the lawyer Monica More Frankness. A second involved supported this version and said that the author of the recording sent him via whatsapp the video of the alleged aggression hours after committing it. The young man insisted that he deleted it once he received it and did not spread it. However, before the judge they did not pronounce on the matter.

The events uncovered by this newspaper occurred in the summer of 2018 in an area away from the town center where the aggression occurred . The four boys raped the child - a schoolmate - and, according to her account of the events, also recorded with a mobile phone the aggression to which she was subjected in an area away from the urban center. Later, they threatened to spread the video if they were not paid a sum of money. They asked for 50 euros. The aggression occurred in summer but the victim did not decide to report until last March. Apparently, I was afraid. The girl and a friend met the four young people who, according to the research, study in the same center. They chatted and spent a few hours together without any unusual behavior being recorded up to that point.

According to the investigation, things changed when the victim stayed with them alone. At one point her friend left and she stayed for a while longer. When she wanted to leave, they didn't leave her and drove her to a remote area. According to their testimony, they seized it with force and used violence to retain it. They gave him some blows to intimidate her . She was afraid and decided not to try to escape the physical and numerical superiority of her aggressors. All sexually assaulted her after undressing her, as the complaint states. Once they were finished, one of the alleged aggressors showed him a video that he had recorded of the rape and asked him for money not to spread it to the institute. The girl did not agree to give it to him. The mobiles were available to the Civil Guard.

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