The Criminal Court of Soria has sentenced the man who slapped his wife while she was making a live broadcast through the social network TikTok, as the perpetrator of a crime of ill-treatment in the field of violence against women , sentenced to one year in prison.
The court also imposes a three-year ban on the convicted person from coming within 300 meters of the victim's person, home and workplace and from communicating with her by any means or procedure, direct or indirect; and another three years of deprivation of the right to possess and carry weapons.
The magistrate has estimated, once the evidence as a whole has been assessed, that "the defendant, in a public and notorious manner, in front of thousands of people, assaulted his wife, with the intention of undermining her physical integrity and humiliating her in public, without that it is established that he caused injuries, although there was obvious and real mistreatment, which meets all the requirements set forth in article 153.1 of the Penal Code and the defendant is sentenced as the perpetrator of a crime of mistreatment of work in the field of violence against women.
In the sentence, the magistrate has clarified that "in crimes of gender violence, the victim's complaint is not necessary, and punishment must be given once its commission is known." "The simple fact of the live broadcast of the slap is enough for the public powers to deploy the scope of protection of the victim, regardless of whether she recognizes herself as such," she recalled.
In the same way, it has indicated that "it is not justification of the aggression, nor does it suppose that it is not punished, the fact that the victim consents and justifies the slap." "In crimes of violence against women, as in all crimes of serious injury, the consent of the person attacked is irrelevant and the punishment proceeds in all cases," she explained.
In the graduation of the sentence, the magistrate has taken into consideration that the man "beat the victim in public, in front of thousands of people, with the purpose, in addition to causing her physical abuse, to humiliate her and belittle her before her friends and acquaintances; imposed his domination over his wife on social networks, without the fact that he was live making him stop his aggression; and he felt offended by what they had said to his wife and reacted by attacking her in public."
"This conduct deserves the greatest criminal reproach that the law allows, it deserves the maximum penalty to be imposed, since the defendant is not capable of respecting his wife, not even in public. In addition, apparently, this conduct has already has been repeated on previous occasions, since the victim acknowledges that, prior to these events, he has received two beatings", he concluded.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
