One of the victims is an 11-year-old girl who attended the home of a relative of her mother to play with a girl her age.
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A Manabí Criminal Guarantees Court ruled nine years and three months in prison for Richard Alberto SB for the rape of an 11-year-old girl in a house in the center of Manta.
At the trial hearing, Ginger Mesías, Gender Prosecutor No. 2, presented the psychological and social environment reports, as well as other evidence associated with this investigation, such as the anticipated testimony that the girl gave in the company of her mother.
According to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, the minor stayed in the care of her grandmother, when her mother went out to work, and the minor used to frequent a neighboring home where a relative of her mother lived to play with a girl of her age that resided in that property.
The investigation revealed that the now sentenced man abused the minor on several occasions in that place and that he intimidated her so that she would not confess the facts. He gave her candy to convince her not to tell anyone about what happened.
After presenting these evidence, judges Lorena Romero, José Luis Alarcón and Carlos Fuentes handed down the sentence of sexual abuse following numbers 5 and 9 of article 48 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP), which establish aggravations for sharing or being a party of the family nucleus and know the victim prior to the commission of the offense.
The judgment also established an economic fine and comprehensive reparation to the victim, the details of which will be reported in the written judgment.
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On the other hand, a Court of Criminal Guarantees of Morona Santiago issued a sentence of 19 years in prison against Leoncio Vidal U. as responsible for the rape of a 27-year-old girl.
The event occurred on January 1, 2021 in the community Extinction Shimpis, from the Morona canton. That day, the victim left a social gathering and the now sentenced man surprised her from behind. Amid threats, he took her to a secluded place where he committed the sexual crime.
“After the fact, Leoncio Vidal U. stole the victim’s cell phone and fled. The young woman asked for help from people who were in the meeting, “said the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement. Hours later, the aggressor was detained in a community building Extinction Yukias.
The prosecutor for Indigenous Affairs, Lino Saant Marian, was able to prove the existence of the crime and the responsibility of the accused with the anticipated testimony of the victim and the testimonies of other witnesses, experts in charge of medical-legal and psychological evaluations, police agents who they recognized the scene and apprehended the accused. (I)
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