The three former Arandina players accused of sexually assaulting a minor face this Thursday a request for penalty claimed by the prosecutor that ranges between 40 years in prison for one of them and 39 for the other two , during a trial that It will be held until the 27th of this month.

The oral hearing, which started this Thursday at 10 am , will be held behind closed doors by decision of the president of the corresponding Chamber of the Provincial Court of Burgos, in order to avoid contact between the victim and his relatives with the defendants . The alleged perpetrators of sexual assault are Carlos Cuadrado , Lucho, 24; Víctor Rodríguez , Viti, 22; and Raúl Calvo , 19, all of them arrested in December 2017 for events that occurred a month earlier.

The defenses of the three defendants maintain that there was no crime, which they will try to prove at the oral hearing to request free absolution. The public prosecution , on the other hand, considers that the three defendants maintained telephone and social network contacts with a 15-year-old teenager whose age they knew, in order to convince her to have sex with them.

On November 24, 2017, the child went to the domicile of the three defendants where she was supposedly forced to have sexual relations with all of them in the living room of the house to then be forced again by one of them to endure another sexual relationship in one bedroom of the house, according to the Prosecutor's Office of Burgos .

The Prosecutor's Office has applied in its request for penalties the criteria set by the Supreme Court in relation to La Manada de los Sanfermines to accuse them not of a crime, but of a plurality of crimes of sexual assault. It imposes a crime against sexual freedom on the three, two on sexual assault on a child under 16 years of age and a quarter on "continued" sexual assault on the minor, so that they are not only charged with a continued crime, as they made the accusations in the case of La Manada.

The novelty is not only in expanding the crimes of sexual assault, but in considering the defendants as necessary cooperators when they were not directly participating as authors of each of the three sexual assaults, so that the penalty requested is greater. In other words, the Prosecutor's Office does not circumscribe each one of the three sexual aggressions to the corresponding author, but extends the criminal responsibility to the other two by understanding that they acted as participants while the events occurred.

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