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The TS confirms the conviction of an elderly man who raped minors with economic problems to whom he offered money and food

Dismisses the man's appeal and ratifies the decision of the Catalan courts.

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The TS confirms the conviction of an elderly man who raped minors with economic problems to whom he offered money and food

Dismisses the man's appeal and ratifies the decision of the Catalan courts

MADRID, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Supreme Court (TS) has confirmed the sentence of 26 years and 11 months in prison that was imposed on a septuagenarian for asking six minors with economic problems to let him touch them "in exchange" for money -- between 5 and 10 euros -- and bribery "like taking them out to a burger joint or buying them clothes."

The facts date back to the period between 2013 and 2015, when the defendant "with a libidinous spirit and prevailing over the age of the minors (...) approached them under the pretext of reading tarot cards and having a conversation" . As he gained the trust of the girls, he asked them to "let themselves be touched" and to convince them he offered them cash, gifts and meals.

As stated in the sentence, to which Europa Press has had access, the defendant abused the girls, aged between 13 and 15, and "took advantage not only of that age disproportion with the minors and their lack of maturity, but of other factors".

The court has stressed that the man took advantage of the "weak social and economic position of the victims" to give them "small gifts of clothing, invitations to eat hamburgers or small amounts of money to obtain their sexual favors."

Thus, the magistrates have dismissed the appeal presented by the septuagenarian against the decision of the Provincial Court of Barcelona to endorse the sentence of a court in Rubí for which he was convicted, among others, as the author of six crimes of corruption of minors and two continued crimes of sexual abuse with prevalence.

Although the old man was sentenced to almost 27 years in prison, the trial court considered it appropriate that he serve up to 21 years of the sentence. Dissatisfied with the resolution, he took his case before the Supreme Court.

The man alleged that his right to effective judicial protection and to a procedure with all the guarantees had been violated. He also argued, among other issues, that the sentence for which he was convicted did not express "clearly and conclusively what are the facts that are considered proven."

The septuagenarian insisted that the resolution handed down in Catalonia contained an "absolutely brief, concise, vague and abstract story, pronouncing itself in general and global terms."

The Supreme Court has not agreed with him and has responded that "the terms used in the proven fact are grammatically understandable, without ambiguity, obscurity or deficient wording, and allow us to know the truth of what happened in relation to the existence of the crimes and the defendant's participation.

In 30 pages, the Criminal Chamber has dismissed all his arguments and has confirmed the prison sentence, as well as the prohibition to approach or communicate with minors for almost 32 years and compensation of between 6,000 and 12,000 euros.