Serpa: Eight years in prison for abusing stepdaughter 20 year old, incapable of resistance.
Eight years in prison, in legal height, to individual who was found guilty of aggravated sexual abuse resistance person unable to. You will have to pay 15.000 victim compensation euros.
Francisco Valentine (brown right in the photo coat), 65 year old, civil servant in the agricultural sector, was yesterday condemned by the Criminal Court of Beja, to eight years in prison, in accumulation of penalties and the payment of compensation to 15.000 euros, two of the four sexual abuse crimes aggravated person incapable of resistance, he was accused.
The defendant was convicted of each offense, who had a criminal frame of 2 to 12 year old, a 5 years and 6 months in prison, what the height was fixed in 8 year old.
The individual, worker at Herdade da Abóboda, State property, in the municipality of Serpa, She heard the president of the Collective of Judges, Mariana Piçarra, give as proven the two crimes, for what had sex anal intercourse, with StepDaughter, carrier cognitive impairment.
The magistrate held that Sofia (fictitious name), then with 20 year old, It was subject to abuse, on at least two occasions, between 25 April and 6 May 2015, facts denounced a teacher of Special Education School 2/3 de Moura who attended, who immediately gave to the authorities.
The Collective judges discredited the family testimony of Francisco Valentine, explaining that "are crimes that anyone who knows chooses to keep silent", finished.
The defendant who came to be in custody, duress as it was altered month and a half later for weekly presentations in GNR and prohibition of contact with the victim, will wait for the final judgment of the judgment, with your lawyer, Belchior de Sousa (right in the picture) revealed that will "turn", considering that the penalty for each crime "is too excessive", justified.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
