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Mónica YQP

, of Panamanian origin, will serve nine years in prison for violating the dignity, freedom and labor rights of seven women, all of them immigrant in an irregular situation in Spain, whom she deceived with the excuse of regularizing their situation by hiring them as employees of the home.

He sexually abused five of them and subjected them to reprehensible sexual practices such as giving them vaginal examinations or forcing them to work in a thong or naked.

The accused acted with her sentimental partner.

Although he has not been tried because he died when he threw himself into the void from a ninth floor when the National Police was going to search his home.

Both recruited South American women with family responsibilities in their countries of origin and a great economic need, vulnerable, without roots or support in Spain, in a situation of residence or illegality under the pretext of offering them domestic work at home.

"A climate of terror and anguish"

As the Office of the Prosecutor maintains, they earned their trust to go to the domicile of both and, under deception or coercion, created "a climate of fear and anguish" to bend the will of the victims and "perpetrate acts of a sexual nature against them. "as well as imposing working conditions that violated their labor rights and their freedom.

The events occurred between March and October 2019 in Vigo and initially they were to be tried in the Fifth Section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra this Tuesday and Wednesday, but the holding of the trial has finally been avoided with an agreement between the parties.

The Prosecutor's Office requested 37 years in prison for the woman and the private prosecution 53, but she will finally be sentenced with her agreement to only nine.

With this agreement, the woman recognized five crimes of sexual abuse, one of sexual assault, one of coercion, another of trafficking in human beings, another against the rights of workers and a last of mistreatment.

The victims, from

Guatemala

, Colombia and

Nicaragua

, will also be compensated by the accused, who will pay each of the victims of the five crimes of sexual abuse 1,000 euros, and 6,000 euros to the other two women, these two because they suffer from disorder post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Auscultation and gynecological examination"

The first of her victims was in March 2019. A young woman from Guatemala who came to Spain as a tourist to look for work, given the economic misery she suffered in her country of origin and the need to support her three children.

She published an ad in

Milanuncios

offering herself as a household cleaner and that couple contacted her and told her that she would charge 900 euros a month as an internal employee and that she should have a medical examination, something that "was normal in Spain."

They made him sign an authorization for "auscultation, complete physical examination, blood and urine analysis and gynecological examination" and they did an examination, which one day was superficial, but a few days later, more complete, with a vaginal examination.

They did not use her effectively, but they did use the rest.

The method of contact was similar in all the victims and the events of the same nature.

They promised to get her a work permit and offered her a job taking care of her daughter or cleaning the house.

A vaginal exam to work

One of them, in the interview itself, was made to sign a consent to carry out a vaginal examination, claiming that it was necessary to work in Spain, according to the Prosecutor's Office, "abusing her situation of vulnerability and little knowledge."

Five in total received this recognition and were subjected to touching "saying that it was annoying but necessary and normal in Spain to get a job."

Some of them were made to sign a work contract in which it was said that the job would not have a salary - "in exchange for bringing their daughter from their native country and from a flat in Negreira" -, as well as that they committed themselves to a recognition weekly doctor, vaginal and anal exudate and vaginal examination.

One of the victims was locked up, setting off the alarm and telling her that there were cameras and that they knew about everything she was doing.

Another was forced to clean in a thong because "they were house rules" and another was forced to work completely naked for about two hours and three times a day.

They made her eat naked with them at the table and demanded that she shower with the bathroom door open.

Threats of death

They frightened one of them by saying that they belonged to a higher organization related to drugs and organ trafficking to which she already belonged and that for that reason nothing would happen to her children.

As she refused to have relations with her husband, they frightened her by saying that if she did not comply or call the police, the supposed organization would kill her by dismembering her and if she obeyed she would earn a lot of money and her children would be fine.

The events carried out by the defendant and the deceased husband included mistreatment of one of the victims and, in general, creating "an atmosphere of terror".

One of these women managed to escape after being held against her will inside the apartment for about 24 hours and the last one remained in the apartment locked up for eight days until the National Police entered and searched her home.

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