Fernando Torres-Baena, sentenced to 302 years imprisonment by the Spanish Justice after being convicted of 35 crimes of sexual abuse and another 13 of corruption of minors, enjoyed three days out of prisonat the request of his defense and thanks to his good conduct in prison.

The permit, granted by Penitentiary Surveillance Court number 3 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, can be appealed.

Torres Baena, who received his sentence on March 15, 2013 and served more than half of his sentencewas camouflaged under the screen of a prestigious martial arts gym in the capital of Gran Canaria, hence his case became known as “Karate”.

As proven, the crimes were committed against the students he taught classesso disabled to perform that function.

On May 6 last year, as well as on other previous occasions, his permit was denied by the Prison Treatment Board, but this time he obtained a favorable opinion from the Penitentiary Surveillance Court before he filed a new appeal.

The favorable resolution is due, to a large extent, to the reports of the fiscal and forensic physician of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas.

As explained by the Spanish Justice, recent reports have reported “good behavior and use of time committed by the prisoner during his stay in prison for more than thirteen years he has been in prison ”.

For this reason, it concluded that by “positive change in criminological factors” no more “an obvious risk of committing new crimes”a framework that gives Torres Baena, the main character of the largest period of child abuse convicted in Spanish history, the opportunity to “access his first permit”.

“The circumstances in which the sentenced man has formed in prison advising on giving both, as something that is best for him and for the society to which he will return when he completes his sentence, and to which they should be ready, both to one and to the other, for the good of all, “Justice reasoned.

The magistrate therefore avoids putting himself in the position of “just or avenger, adding new penalties.” The sentence, he assured, “falls within the scope of the sentence passed, and no one should serve as a new sentence, other than the Provincial Court room that has already been served.”

According to its regulations, Spain has a maximum limit of effective compliance with the sentence of 20 years.

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