The trial for two alleged sexual abuses by a father against his two adopted daughters was left ready for sentencing this Monday. The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas moved to Lanzarote to judge the events, for which the prosecutor was asking for 20 years in prison for this 61-year-old man. During the trial, which was held behind closed doors, the accused denied the charges and both the Prosecutor's Office and the victims' lawyers maintained their accusations.
"He denies the facts, he denied them as he has maintained during the investigation," says the lawyer of one of the young women, who accuse their father of having sexually abused her and her sister during their childhood and adolescence. In that hearing, the two victims also gave their "dramatic" testimony, the lawyer points out. In their case, they did so protected "to avoid visual confrontation" with their alleged abuser. In addition to the victims and the accused, all of them represented by lawyers appointed in the official shift, several witnesses and experts appeared. Among them, the forensic psychiatrist who treated and assessed the sisters, whose testimony the lawyer for the prosecution highlights especially.
According to the prosecutor's indictment, the man would have begun to abuse his two daughters when they were 8 and 10 years old respectively and would have forced them for years, until one of them began to refuse at 17 years old and the other left home when they came of age. The prosecutor maintained that the "multitude of lewd acts in a climate of domination" to which they were subjected caused the eldest of the sisters, who is now 29 years old, a "chronic post-traumatic stress disorder associated with severe depressive symptoms" and "post-traumatic stress" to the youngest, who is now 27 years old.
A forensic report gives "veracity" to the victims
The court-appointed lawyer for one of the victims points out in this regard that the testimony of the forensic psychiatrist who treated the sisters was especially "outstanding". According to her, "the forensic report corroborates, above all, the veracity" of the testimony of the two young women, in contrast to the denial of their adoptive father.
Thus, the psychiatrist would have highlighted during her "extensive presentation" that "there is no collusion" between the sisters and that their accounts would be credible. Now it will be up to the First Section of the Provincial Court to resolve it during its deliberation and express it in its judgment.
