Castelló, (EFE) habitual treatment in the family environment committed on three of his children, minors.
Drug addiction attenuators and dilations
The Second Section of the Provincial Court has appreciated in its conduct the mitigation of drug addiction and undue delay, as well as the kinship aggravation for all these criminal offenses with the exception of injuries.
The father, also convicted
The father of the victims has also been sentenced to six months in prison and fines for a crime of habitual mistreatment in the family environment, exhibitionism and display of pornographic material to minors.
They will not be able to approach the children
Both parents will not be able to approach less than 200 meters or communicate with the injured parties and will have to jointly compensate each of them with 20,000 euros.
The ruling also imposes on the sentenced woman the obligation to compensate her eldest daughter with 60,000 euros, for the damages and consequences she suffered as a result of the events.
They never took care of their children
The two defendants had five children, four girls and one boy, between 1999 and 2008. According to the account of proven facts included in the judicial decision, from birth none of the parents faced the slightest care of the children and they failed to comply serious and reiterated the duties of parental authority.
Thus, the risk indicators appreciated in minors responded to inadequate nutrition, thinness, inappropriate clothing or in poor condition, delayed development, school absenteeism or difficulties in relationships.
helplessness
Of the five victims, it was the three oldest, two girls and one boy, who were affected to a greater extent by this negligence, due to the time they spent with their parents, compared to the other two sisters, who were 2 and 4 years when they were declared helpless and their guardianship was assumed by the Administration.
The behaviors were aggravated by the mother’s repeated harassment of her children, on whom she inflicted physical and psychological abuse without the father, who spent periods of time in prison, defending them or trying to avoid them.
The three children were physically assaulted by the mother, who beat them with sticks, belts or irons, pulled their hair and dragged them along the ground. The male child was even put a boiling spoon in the genital area on one occasion.
Both parents used cocaine and heroin daily in front of the children, who also took care of supplying third parties with the drug or going in search of it. According to the sentence, they even came to consume these drugs.
On the other hand, the couple also had sexual relations in front of the minors and often watched movies with pornographic content with them, so the boy began to develop inappropriate sexual behaviors for his age.
When the defendant entered prison, between 2004 and 2007, the eldest daughter, who at that time would have been 6 or 7 years old, was subjected to abuse and sexual assault by a relative and by one of the partners her mother had at the time, without her stopping him.
serious consequences
This experience has caused this girl serious psychological consequences both at the level of mental health and the development of her personality.
The sentence handed down by the Second Section of the Court of Castellón can be appealed before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.