The four students of a Barcelona institute who raped a child with Asperger's are sentenced

• Minors Sergi, the teenager with Asperger's harassed and raped by four classmates: "Now you're going to get pregnant and you're going to have a normal child"

The

in Vallirana (Barcelona) accused of sexually harassing and assaulting a student with Asperger when both the victim and they were minors, have been sentenced

in a closed regime center since four years probation.

In addition, the four minors and their parents must indemnify the victim in solidarity with 65,000 euros, with the school being subsidiary civil liability, according to reports to elmundo.es

, the lawyer who has represented the victim.

"On the one hand we are happy because

that these events have occurred, which is the most important thing for a victim when he is raped, but on the other hand we have suffered a lot, it has been four years waiting for it to be do justice,"

, the victim's mother

, told elmundo.es .

The events happened in 2018 when Sergi, who

at the time and was studying first in ESO, began to be harassed by four students between the ages of 14 and 15 in a higher course.

As his mother explained to this newspaper a few months ago, they began by insulting him, stealing from him and ended up sexually assaulting him in the schoolyard up to three times.

"They pulled down his pants, put him on all fours like a dog, put Vaseline on him and tried to penetrate him. As they saw that they couldn't, they inserted a stick into him. They masturbated him and forced him to masturbate them. They told him: 'Now

and you're going to have a normal child.' When I tell it, it seems like I'm telling a movie, my body even shakes," the victim's mother, who suffers from Asperger syndrome, harshly recounted the brutality of the attack.

The trial against the four defendants, who are already of legal age,

in the juvenile court number 6 in Barcelona, ​​but the sentence has not been issued until now, almost four months later.

The four young people, now of legal age, have been sentenced to three years of internment in a closed center for a crime against moral integrity, a crime of attempted

(anal route), a crime of sexual assault with carnal access (anal route) and a crime of sexual assault with carnal access (oral route), according to the victim's lawyer.

It was the sentence requested by the Prosecutor's Office, while the private prosecution requested four years, one more.

Since the victim took a long time to tell her parents the facts and there was no evidence of the attacks on her clothes, the main evidence for the prosecution was her testimony, which was carried out during the investigation phase and

.

The recorded statement was issued at trial as preconstituted evidence.

"My son is happy because they have given him credibility and

, but we are not completely satisfied because they have done many things for us," says Pilar Joan.

when the attack took place

did not sit on the defendant's bench , of whom it was only possible to prove the participation of the

four convicted, since the school management "who knew what they were doing to my son" has not also been tried, says Pilar Joan.

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