OUTRAGE GREETS VERDICT IN SEX ATTACK ON UNCONSCIOUS TEENAGER. A Spanish court sentenced five men on charges of sexual abuse, not rape, in the assault of a 14-year-old. The ruling was likely to intensify debate over whether the judiciary treats sexual assault fairly.

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October 31, 2019
Raphael Minder
The New York Times

MADRID — A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced five men to prison terms in the sexual assault of an unconscious 14-year-old girl, but the men were convicted on a lesser charge of sexual abuse after the court ruled that they did not use violence during the attack.
The verdict is likely to intensify the debate over whether the country’s judiciary treats victims of sexual attacks fairly, coming after a 2018 court verdict in a gang rape in Pamplona had roiled the nation. Those men were later subjected to harsher punishment amid vows of judicial reform.
But Thursday’s ruling, which echoed the initial Pamplona verdict, prompted women to take to social media again to express their outrage and call for protests.
Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, wrote on Twitter that the “outrageous” verdict was the product of a patriarchal judiciary. “I’m not a judge and I don’t know how many years in prison they deserve, but what I know is that this is not abuse, it is rape!” the mayor wrote.


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