The Provincial Court of Las Palmas has sentenced a woman from Lanzarote to a total of three years in prison after she was found guilty last week in a jury trial of pressuring her ex-husband by threatening to disseminate images and conversations of a sexual nature if he did not give her money.
The sentence, in accordance with the verdict that unanimously declared the accused guilty, imposes on her one year of imprisonment as the author of a crime of conditional threats, and two years of imprisonment as responsible for a crime of revealing secrets.
The resolution, dictated by Magistrate Carlos Vielba, declares proven that in the course of 2009/10, the accused, in agreement with her daughter, clandestinely obtained copies of Messenger conversations that her husband and his current partner had had with other people, "of intense sexual content", as well as pornographic photographs of both. In this regard, the judge points out that said photographs and conversations were not intended to be public among third parties outside the interested parties.
The ruling details that the material was obtained by the daughter of the accused - then a minor - who lived with her father and his wife in Gran Canaria and that she gave them to the accused on a pen drive, "following the instructions" of the now convicted.
According to the court, from July 29, 2010 to October 2011, the accused sent her ex-husband repeated requests by email and telephone, "letting him know that she was in possession of the photographs and conversations, and that she was going to send it to the school of his daughters and his current partner, to his workplace, and distribute it among family and friends, if he did not give her between 400 and 500 euros per month and pay for obtaining a driver's license for their common daughter".
The sentence is subject to appeal before the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands.
