The number of sexual offenders who have already benefited from the law of only yes is yes has already exceeded 400. All of them have seen their sentences reduced.
In some cases they were already firm sentences and in others they were in the appeal phase before the higher courts or the Supreme Court.
In more than 30 cases, the reductions have led to the immediate release of the beneficiaries.
The latest sentence reductions known today come from the Balearic Islands, where the list has been extended to 11 other cases.
As specified, the criminal sections of the Provincial Court have so far studied a total of 94 matters subject to review: in 55 cases the sentence has not been reduced;
in 39, yes.
Another 90 convictions remain pending review.
A new sentence review has also been announced in Lleida, where the Provincial Court has reduced the prison sentence for a man convicted of a crime of sexual assault from 7 to 5 years and 4 months.
The known cases are 122 more cases than a week ago, when the number of convicts who had seen their sentences reduced reached 278. On Monday the figure rose to 338. On Wednesday it reached 374. This Friday, coinciding with the negotiations Underway between the Ministries of Equality and Justice to once again raise the penalties lowered by the law promoted by Irene Montero, the number of benefited sexual offenders stands at 400.
Among the latest cases reported are six reductions in Andalusia, 5 in Malaga -one of them has led to release- and another in Jaén, reports Europa Press.
Likewise, the Provincial Court of Barcelona has agreed to apply the Organic Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom to a man who, when he was a coach at a football club in Sant Joan Despí, committed a crime of sexual assault against a minor under 16 years of age.
The court has sentenced him to 9 years in prison and has explained that he does so in compliance with the penal reform for being "more favorable to the prisoner."
The list also includes a new reduction in Navarra, where the Provincial Court has modified from 9 to 7 years the prison sentence imposed on a man who raped his ex-partner in June 2020 in Pamplona.
On the sidelines, six other sexual offenders have seen their prison sentences reduced in Álava, Basque Country.
One of them has benefited from a five-year reduction, seeing his prison sentence for a crime of sexual assault go from 12 to 7 years.
By Autonomous Communities
As of February 3, sentence reviews and sentence reductions are confirmed in 17 autonomous communities.
According to the data collected so far by Europa Press, there are 70 in Andalusia, 53 in the Basque Country, 46 in the Valencian Community, 42 in Madrid, 39 in the Balearic Islands, 33 in Galicia, 21 in Castilla y León, 20 in Castilla-La Mancha, 16 in Asturias, 14 in the Canary Islands, 13 in Catalonia, 9 in the Supreme Court, 8 in Extremadura, 7 in Cantabria, 3 in Navarra, 2 in Murcia, 2 in La Rioja and 2 in Aragon.
Of these 400 cases, at least 29 have led to the release of convicts: 6 from Madrid, 6 from the Basque Country -one by order of the Supreme Court-, 3 from the Balearic Islands, 2 from Galicia, 2 from the Valencian Community, 2 from Cantabria, 2 in Andalusia, 2 in Asturias, 1 in Extremadura, 1 in Castilla y León, 1 in the Canary Islands and 1 in Castilla-La Mancha.
The cases recorded here represent a low estimate, since not all the Supreme Courts keep an up-to-date record of the number of reduction cases that are handed down in their courts.
On the sidelines, hundreds of reviews have also been computed in which the judges have considered that it is not appropriate to apply the penal reform retroactively, among other reasons, because the sentence is within the range now in force.
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