The man sentenced to 11.5 years in prison for raping and robbing a woman in Valladolid will not benefit from the reform

VALLADOLID, 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Court of Valladolid has agreed not to review the global sentence of eleven and a half years in prison imposed on the citizen of Portuguese origin F.A.C.S. for the rape and robbery perpetrated on a woman in August 2014 next to the Vallsur Shopping Center in Valladolid, and this despite the reform of the Criminal Code through the Comprehensive Law on the Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, also known as the 'Law of Yes is yes'.

This has been agreed by the Second Criminal Section of the Valladolid Court through the corresponding order, according to information from the Press Office of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León collected by Europa Press.

Said court considered proven, in its judgment of November 2015, that the defendant was the perpetrator of two crimes of rape (article 179) and another of robbery with intimidation, hence the sentence of eleven and a half years of imprisonment, together with with the obligation to compensate his victim in the amount of 11,300 euros for injuries and another 8,000 for the consequences suffered, according to legal sources informed Europa Press.

In addition, the convicted person will also have to compensate the victim with another 268 euros for the stolen goods and with 101.41 euros to Sacyl for the expenses derived from the assistance of the complainant.

During the trial, held behind closed doors on October 13, 2015, F.A.C.S. He pleaded not guilty and claimed that it was a relationship consented to by the victim. He even claimed he had no explanation for why after having sex with the young woman in a park near the aforementioned shopping center he ran out with her clothes and bag.

Faced with her exculpatory version, the victim persisted in her incriminating testimony, according to which on the day in question, at around 4:40 a.m. on August 1, 2014, she was returning to her home along the Camino Viejo de Simancas when she was approached by the defendant, who placed something next to her kidneys--she thought it was a bladed weapon--and warned her that "it was up to her" not to hurt her.

Immediately afterwards, he took her to a park near Vallsur and there, after forcing her to hide in an area of ​​vegetation, he committed the rape. After the alleged attacker fled with her clothes and her bag, she ran out wearing a bra and socks until she was able to stop a local police officer who was driving her private vehicle.

The woman's statement, the DNA test and, above all, the forensic expert reports, regarding the physical injuries that the victim presented, and psychological ones, focused on the adjustment disorder and post-traumatic stress suffered by the complainant, have been used by the Chamber to support a conviction.

The private prosecution had requested ten years for the crime of rape and four for robbery with intimidation, while the Public Prosecutor had requested nine and a half years for the first and another three and a half years for the second. Both parties agreed on the compensation chapter by requesting 14,000 euros for the injuries and another 8,000 for the consequences caused. The defense, however, had requested an acquittal.