The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas judged this Tuesday N.F.L.O, a man accused of sexually abusing a patient while performing a massage in a hairdresser's in Puerto del Carmen.
The Prosecutor's Office ratified its indictment in the trial and maintained the request for eight years in prison and disqualification from passive suffrage during the term of the sentence, as well as six years of supervised release and ten years of a restraining order. In addition to the payment of costs. While the owner of the hairdresser and sister of the accused is required to pay civil liability worth 6,000 euros.
N.F.L.O. worked as a masseur sporadically in a hairdresser's, owned by his sister in the tourist town of Tías. At that time, the client L.M.F., who was staying in a hotel in the area, went to the premises and requested a massage for herself and others for her husband and daughter. The first to undergo the treatment was the victim, while the rest of the family waited at the hotel.
Although the woman was not in court this Friday because she lives abroad, the Chamber viewed her statement in the Courts after the police report. At that time, the woman narrated that she was on the massage table, placed face down and without a towel to cover herself, when at one point the masseur allegedly began to touch her buttocks and inserted his fingers into her vagina.
She stated that she felt something being inserted inside her, but she dismissed it. After that, and on a second occasion, the chiropractor asked her to lie face up to continue with the massage and allegedly reinserted his fingers into the victim's vagina. At that moment the woman reacted and testified that she was in a state of shock.
According to the statement of the accused's sister, the woman left the massage room and met her husband at the door, who had already arrived and was waiting for his turn. At that moment, the Anglo-Saxon man asked her what she thought of the massage. The woman, visibly nervous according to witnesses, asked him to pay and told him that she just wanted to get out of there.
N.F.L.O.'s sister and owner of the premises assures that "at no time did she hear anything or see anything", only that the lady left the room "quite upset". At that moment, according to what her husband declared days after the incident, the victim told her husband what had happened in the hairdresser's and he began to shout in English at the owner of the business. "I didn't understand him, I only asked him not to call the police," he testified in court. He also assured that, although the client was initially going to pay the 65 euros for the massage, he then took the money away.
In addition, the woman repeated on several occasions that she was afraid because she had made an appointment for her 15-year-old daughter in that same place, although she had not yet been attended to. "I told her, ma'am, don't do this to me and I went outside to walk," reveals the accused. During the scuffle, the man left the premises. However, and after several attempts by the owner of the premises to prevent them from calling the Police, they called the Civil Guard and once they moved to the premises, the accused had to return to the hairdresser's and was arrested to give his version to the Benemérita. The client even stated before the Court that she felt raped at that time.
During his intervention in the hearing N.F.L.O. defended that at no time did he sexually abuse the patient. At the same time, and questioned about whether he had a possible erection during the massage, he assured that it was a belt in which he placed the bottle of body oil. In addition, he assured that at one point and during the massage the client "was startled as when a woman has an orgasm." Regarding his flight from the premises, he defended that, as he was irregularly in Spain, he preferred to leave the business so as not to harm his sister.
N.F.L.O., who has no criminal record, defended his innocence and assured that in the time he has been working as a masseur he never had a previous complaint.