Five years for sexually assaulting his granddaughter for six years

The Alicante Court has sentenced a man to five years in prison for sexually molesting his granddaughter in Alicante when she was between the ages of 4 and 10. The […]

November 10, 2025 2 Mins Read

The Alicante Court has sentenced a man to five years in prison for sexually molesting his granddaughter in Alicante when she was between the ages of 4 and 10.

The defendant was between 67 and 73 years old and the child was between 4 and 10 years old when the sexual attacks happened over a period of six years.

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The Third Section court’s punishment said that the accused utilised his familial ties with the victim to “satisfy his sexual appetite” by picking her up from school when he was 67 to 73 years old and “in charge” of her.

The court ruling states that, among other behaviours, the accused undressed in front of her and asked the minor to touch his sexual organs, while also touching her inappropriately, and considers it proven that these aggressions generated in the minor a post-traumatic stress disorder “with anxiety and clinical depression”.

Both the prosecution and the private prosecution, initiated by the girl’s mother, initially wanted an eleven-year prison sentence for the offender. The defence, on the other side, asked for his acquittal because the accused disputed the claims.

The victim learnt about the problem through a school project on sexual assault.

During the trial, the girl backed up her claims of abuse and said that her grandfather had told her that what happened between them was “a secret game between them.” She said that she found out about the assault when she was in her fourth year of high school and was “working on a project about sexual abuse.” She then told her mother.

The court believes the victim’s story after looking at how persistent she was and how there were no “ulterior motives” that would make her want to hurt the defendant. They also looked at the psychological expert’s report and her mother’s testimony, in which she said that when she was a child, the accused abused her when he drank.

He was given a five-year prison term for repeatedly sexually assaulting a juvenile under 16, as well as a six-year restraining order that kept him from getting within 500 metres of the victim and nine years of supervised release. Finally, he was told to pay the victim €15,000 in damages. He has ten days to appeal this decision to the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV).