The Prosecutor’s Office has asked the judge for internment in a closed regime as a precautionary measure for four of the five minors, between 15 and 17 years old, detained for their alleged relationship with the group rape of a 12-year-old girl and the individual rape of another of the same age in the Valencian town of Burjassot. For the remaining young man, the Public Ministry has requested probation with removal. All of them are still pending the judicial decision.
The National Police arrested this Wednesday afternoon in the same municipality the group, who spent the night at the police station before giving a statement this Thursday before the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office in the City of Justice of Valencia. The Family and Women’s Care Unit (UFAM) continues with the investigations and does not rule out a sixth arrest.
The events occurred this Monday in an abandoned house in Burjassot, about eight kilometers from the capital of Turia. A third young woman, a friend of the victims, sounded the alarm when one of the girls warned her of what had happened through an Instagram message. She placed her position near a subway station.
After alerting the parents, who in turn called the Police, an intense raid began in the surroundings -there are three stations in that area- with which both were located and a statement was taken in the presence of their parents.
The minors had been, through the well-known social network, in a park -adjacent to the building in which the events occurred- with two young people whom they did not previously know. The first investigations suggest that one of them tried to have sex with one of the girls, who managed to escape after being sexually assaulted. Four other boys also came to the abandoned house, friends of those who made the appointment, who would have committed the gang rape of the other victim.
The medical examination carried out on one of the young women revealed signs compatible with an event of these characteristics, for which the National Police informed the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office of what had happened. In parallel, the agents in charge of the case analyzed the mobile phones of the girls to identify the aggressors and facilitate their arrest.
In addition, a team of the Scientific Police carried out a detailed inspection on Tuesday in the abandoned house in which the events occurred, waiting to also analyze the clothes worn by the victims.
The Burjassot City Council condemned what happened on Wednesday, while the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Gloria Calero, called for “acting in a more forceful way because this will not happen if there is not a forceful education in values”.
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