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Alicante man given a two-year suspended sentence for abusing his 7-month-old baby

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A 26-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison by an Alicante court for beating and injuring his seven-month-old child. However, the accused, who was placed in preventive detention following his arrest in 2021, will not be sent to prison because the sentence suspends its execution provided he refrains from committing any crimes for the next two years.

The defendant, who was represented by attorneys Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella and Alicia Grau Córdoba, was found guilty of a crime of injury after first being probed for a homicide attempt.

After being admitted with a perforated intestine, the 4-year-old baby spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of Alicante General Hospital, where his survival was questioned. Thankfully, he recovered from his injuries. After his parents, who were 22 at the time, were arrested, the Generalitat took care of the kid. Although the mother’s complaint was ultimately dismissed, the mother was also the subject of a court investigation.

Following a plea agreement struck during the trial between the prosecution and defence, which had sought a five-year prison sentence for serious injuries, Criminal Court No. 10 of Alicante imposed the punishment.

Given that he paid 4,477 euros in civil liability claims to compensate the minor prior to the trial, the verdict finds the minor’s father guilty of assault with the aggravating circumstances of treachery and kinship and the mitigating circumstances of confession and reparation of damages. The 6,000 euros the offender paid as bail to be freed from prison was used to pay the reparation.

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The offender is sentenced to two years in prison, three years of special disqualification from exercising parental control over his young son, and a three-year prohibition from approaching his son within 300 meters or communicating with him in any way. He would only have three months remaining in the sentence’s three-year term, though, because his parental power has been revoked since the incidents. After serving this time, he may attempt to reclaim parental power by starting a new administrative procedure.

He reported a household mishap


At the hearing, the defendant entered a guilty plea and acknowledged the facts the prosecutor’s office had brought against him. Up until this point, the defendant had maintained that his kid had been involved in a domestic mishap at home in Alicante and had hit himself with a toy after falling off a sofa.

The sentence’s declared proven facts took place in Alicante on the afternoon of May 27, 2021. At the house where he lived with his girlfriend and the minor’s mother, the accused was by himself caring for his seven-month-old baby. He was with the youngster in the marriage room at an unspecified time that day when he “hit him several times with such force that the minor had to undergo emergency surgery for a jejunal perforation and mesointestinal haematoma.” The kid spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit at Doctor Balmis General Hospital in Alicante and four days in the hospital ward during his 22-day recovery from the intestinal perforation.

The child was left with a “slight scar from the central abdominal laparotomy” as a cosmetic harm, but the verdict claims that he does not have “anatomical functional sequelae” as a result of these injuries.

After the hospital was informed that a newborn had been admitted with injuries incompatible with the domestic accident his parents had recounted, the police arrested the parents. When the mother got home and started throwing up, the boy was brought to the hospital when he was alone himself with his father.

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Nineteen endangered turtles have been recovered in Alicante by police operations in 135 countries

As part of Operation Thunder, which has been conducted in 135 countries in cooperation with groups and entities like the World Customs Organisation, the Guardia Civil’s Nature Protection Service (Seprona) has detained 13 individuals on suspicion of being involved in the illegal trafficking of protected species in Spain.

According to Seprona, the programme is one of the biggest worldwide efforts to combat environmental crimes, having recovered over 20,000 wildlife species in recent years. nineteen endangered turtles have been saved in Alicante.

The cyber patrol was coordinated by Spanish agents with help from specialised NGOs and Europol, and included environmental crime experts from Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.

In Spain

The Guardia Civil in Spain has conducted 438 inspections, found 193 administrative and 11 criminal infractions, arrested and investigated 13 individuals, and seized 50 inert pieces, including ivory, tusks, paws, and skins, as well as 192 live specimens.

In his presentation of the investigations’ primary findings, Commander Ramón González Gallego noted that “in recent years we have detected a certain interest in venomous animals such as snakes,” and that “the European Union is a transit point, but also a destination and origin point for species trafficking,” particularly with regard to birds and reptiles.

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Even if “some people are unaware that they are committing a crime,” the reality is that “we are increasingly seeing a more serious form of organised crime, which involves breeding and harvesting species for the purpose of generating profit.”

González claims that the financial gains from this kind of illicit commerce “vary depending on the sources consulted, but internationally, the range is very wide” and surpass 20 billion euros.

Penalties and violations

Along with one smuggling offence and another animal abuse offence linked to the trafficking of protected species, nearly all of the criminal offences found in Spain were related to document falsification.

The Natural Heritage and Biodiversity Law, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) regulations, companion animal regulations, and animal health and disease and infection regulations were the most prominent administrative infractions.

According to Commander González, the punishments meted out to criminals in this space “are still low, but they are increasing because they are often associated with other crimes such as document forgery,” and “an increase in penalties is expected in the short term.”

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Additionally, Operation Thunder has made it possible to identify wood shipments from countries like Russia and Burma that are forbidden because of their origin and EU regulations.

Operational Features

Among the noteworthy operations, Seprona reported recovering 32 species from under the seats and in the trunk of a car in Tenerife, including a gallipato, a Mexican orange-legged tarantula, and a tortoise.

During a check of a residence in Telde (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), investigators found 31 other species, including pythons, enormous African snails, California garter snakes, yellow scorpions, and lizards.

18 internationally protected and endangered turtles were rescued by Guardia Civil officers in Alicante and taken to the Santa Faz Wildlife Recovery Centre.

A suitcase carrying 98 birds—both siskins and goldfinches, which are protected nationally—was discovered inside a car in Huelva.

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Torrevieja’s new Local Police fleet

Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, Federico Alarcón, the councillor for security and emergencies, and Alejandro Morer, the director general of police, presented the 17 new cars that will be used by the Local Police on Paseo Vista Alegre yesterday morning, Wednesday 2nd March. The vehicles will be leased for four years with a purchase option.

A total of 1,147,660.80 euros (286,915.20 euros for each contract year) is allocated for the purchase of these cars.

The 17 vehicles that are leased are:

  • Ten SUV patrol cars, all hybrids (four equipped with police gear and an arrest kit, and six equipped with police gear but no arrest kit).
  • Two vans: one with nine seats for police equipment and one for police and report preparations.
  • A police-equipped all-terrain pickup truck for the Environmental Group.
  • Four local police general service support cars without police gear (they should only have rotating magnetic LED lights with an integrated siren and, in three of them, police shields on the front and rear hoods and doors).

In addition, the successful bidder, Transtel, has offered to deliver to Torrevieja City Council two portable vehicle battery jump starters, each worth €200, two fixed/portable vehicle jump starters/chargers, each worth €600, and a high-quality workshop tool trolley with at least 170 parts, valued at €300.

Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, has emphasised the financial investments made by the city council of Torrevieja in recent years to enhance the number of police officers and the fleet of vehicles of the Local Police, which has increased significantly in the last two years.

Eduardo Dolón said that the government team hopes to increase the number of officers in the Torrevieja Local Police force to 200 by the end of the current term in 2027. This is a significant number in order to provide all the necessary citizen security services that the thousands of tourists who visit Torrevieja each year and the residents of Torrevieja themselves deserve.

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Man arrested in Torrevieja for the death of a 5-year-old jailed

Following his appearance today, Thursday 3rd April, before the judge of the Court of Violence against Women number 2 of Murcia, Jesús J. “Suso,” 48, who was arrested in Torrevieja as the suspected perpetrator of the death of his five-year-old stepdaughter in the Murcian district of Llano de Brujas, will be held in provisional custody without bail.

Additionally, judicial sources state that the adoptive mother has also been questioned as a victim-witness, always accompanied by the victim support unit psychologist. A number of witnesses have also been questioned, including the detainee’s brother and parents.

Along with initiating the required support and social protection measures by directing her to the appropriate authorities, the court has also issued a protection order against the victim, which forbids the accused from contacting or approaching her as a precaution. Although the inmate had no prior allegations of gender-based assault, the court found him guilty in 2010 and 2014 of making threats in connection with domestic abuse, for which he was imprisoned for two years initially and then for an additional year.

The accused was taken to court facilities at 9:40 am following his arrest in Torrevieja on Tuesday, 1st April. Under the watchful observation of National Police officers, some of the girl’s family gathered at the entrance to the City of Justice in Murcia to demand justice for Nadia.

The incident, which has stunned society, happened last Tuesday when Jesús J.G. called the minor’s adoptive mother, Ramona, and said, “The girl is already in heaven.” The accused’s parents later discovered the youngster dead at the family home in the Llano de Brujas district, allegedly as a result of the minor consuming pills or other narcotics.

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Given that retaliation against his former spouse may have been the driving force behind the crime, preliminary investigations suggest that vicarious violence may have occurred. Although there were records of threats in texts sent to the victim’s mother, there were no prior reports of abuse.


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