The Supreme Court upholds 15 years in prison for a father for repeatedly raping his 4-year-old son.
The Supreme Court has upheld a 15-year and two-month prison sentence for a man who repeatedly raped his 4-year-old son in Cádiz, once even allowing another man to film him on his cell phone.
The incident occurred between the summer of 2015 and March 2016. The father took his two sons, ages 4 and 8, to the beach where they watched him have sex with other men. On one occasion, he masturbated while asking the children to cover him with a towel when police were present.
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Furthermore, when he brought the children home—either alone or during the agreed-upon visitation schedule, as he had broken up with his partner—he sexually assaulted and raped his 4-year-old son repeatedly. One of these incidents was in front of another person, who was found naked while witnessing the sexual assault when his sister caught him, and immediately took her brother away.
On all these occasions, the sentence says, the minor "protested, cried, or refused" to do what his father wanted, but the latter "warned them not to tell what was happening, telling them that if they did, he would send them to a boarding school."
The Cádiz Court sentenced the father to 16 years in prison for a continuing crime of sexual assault with prevalence and a continuing crime of indecent exposure aggravated by kinship, while the other man was sentenced to 11 months in prison for indecent exposure.
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The father appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the only evidence was the minors' statements, which he deemed unreliable, but the high court rejected his appeal outright and upheld the ruling.
The judges stated that the minors' testimony was "truthful, sincere, and convincing," and that "there are no grounds to discredit the sentence" handed down by the Court, "nor have there been proven reasons to believe that the minors' testimony was induced by their mother; nor have there been any significant contradictions or variations in the testimony."
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