The prosecution is requesting 37 years' imprisonment for the man accused of raping his wife and two daughters in Vitoria
At this Wednesday's trial hearing, the victims, the accused and the experts in the case have testified. After hearing all of them, the prosecutor has found the crimes proven.
Court of Álava.
A man from Vitoria-Gasteiz was tried on Wednesday in the Araba High Court on charges of raping his wife and her two underage daughters. The prosecution requests 37 years' imprisonment for the accused, while the defence requests acquittal.
The couple started dating in 2005 and then they had two daughters, who are still underage.
At this Wednesday's hearing, the woman and her two daughters have testified behind closed doors. The prosecution has stressed that the testimony has been "consistent" and that the same has been said at the time of the complaint, before the examining magistrate, before the social workers who attended them and in today's statement.
On the other hand, the four experts who testified - a social worker, a psychologist, and two forensics - have explained that the family situation was compatible with gender-based violence and that the role of the accused was that of making decisions and perpetually degrading the mother.
The experts have defined the mother as a "fragile person who denies what hurts her." The girls have declared that they "normalized the abuse" because "the father told them that it was a good daughter." According to the professionals, the girls did not identify the facts as a sexual assault until they reached adolescence.
The defendant, on the other hand, denies everything he's accused of. He says he never forced his mother into unauthorized relationships and never sexually assaulted his daughters.
The defencerequests acquittal. In his opinion, none of the facts charged have been substantiated. He alleges that the complaint against the man came after a divorce application and recalls that the defendant was not sentenced to provisional detention because "there was no evidence of criminality".
The Public Prosecutor's Office, however, considers that the man has committed several offences: in the area of gender-based violence, he requests a crime of continued abuse of women and 10 years' imprisonment; two offences of abuse of children under 13 years of age, with the aggravation of kinship; and for each of them he requests 12 years' imprisonment; also a crime of ill-treatment; and three years' imprisonment.
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