José María López, accused of sexually abusing Gran Hermano España participant Carlota Prado, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by the Criminal Court number 18 of Madrid.
Former contestant on GH Revolution He was convicted of a crime of sexual abuse committed on November 4, 2017. López will not go to prisonsince it is a sentence of less than two years and he has no criminal record.
In addition, the approximately 30-year-old man was sentenced to four years removal and isolation of Carlota e you will have to pay 6000 euros as compensation for the moral damage caused.
According to El Confidencial, the production company Zeppelin Televisión SA, responsible for the Telecinco programme, will also have to pay 6,000 euros in subsidiary civil liability.
Prado will receive 1,000 euros from the manufacturer and its insurer, as compensation as “compensation for the further moral damage caused by the complaint to the victim of the crime of sexual abuse to which she was subjected”.
The accusation
In October of last year, The provincial prosecutor in Madrid had asked for two and a half years in prison for López for a crime of sexual abuse.
The public prosecutor had then also requested 6,000 euros as compensation for the moral damage caused to the victim, equal to the producer of the program for the damages caused following the exhibition of the recorded images to the injured party.
In his indictment, the Public Prosecutor stated that the alleged aggressor acted “guided by a libidinous spirit and knowing the state of semi-consciousness in which (…) she was (Carlota) and taking advantage of this circumstance, she began to make movements under the duvet of clear sexual content, despite (…) stammering weakly, he said ‘I can’t'”.
The prosecution described the images and pointed out that José María pressed his body against Carlota’s “to satisfy her sexual desire, despite the fact that she even raised her hand on two occasions as if to tell him to stop”. At the same time, López Pérez repeatedly asked the contestant to open her eyes, but the victim remained motionless.
During the trial, the defendant stated that relations with his fellow competitor had been permitted: “I had no perception that he was unconscious. I did not abuse Carlota“, He insisted.
Source: Clarin
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