The second section of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has sentenced the basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a minor player on his team to seven and a half years in prison for charges of sexual assault and harassment of minors through technological means. The events, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, took place between June 2021 and March 2022.
To the aforementioned custodial sentences, the ruling also adds the special disqualification of the convicted person from exercising the right to passive suffrage during the sentence, as well as from exercising any profession, trade or activities, paid or unpaid, that involves contact with minors.
He is also prohibited from approaching the victim, as well as from communicating with her. He will have supervised release for seven and a half years, a measure to be carried out after the custodial sentence.
In addition, the now convicted man must compensate the victim with 10,000 euros.
THE WRIT OF ACCUSATION
The indictment, collected this September by Europa Press, indicated that a situation of complete trust was created between the defendant and the minor through training and by exercising their sporting functions in the different games that the minor played.
As a result of this trust, the defendant, through his father's number that he used, began different conversations via WhatsApp.
Initially they were limited to sports issues until once he had obtained the minor's full trust and with the aim of satisfying her sexual instincts, he sent her different messages and audios in which he invited her to have full sexual relations.
Thus, one day, after finishing training at the sports center, they went to the locker room, taking advantage of the fact that they were alone in the facilities, at which time they began sexual relations that only stopped when the minor received a call from her mother.
The facts were reported to the police headquarters by the minor's mother and the investigating court then ordered, as an urgent precautionary measure, the prohibition of the defendant from approaching and communicating with the victim.
