Briefing
The Sección VII of the Audiencia Provincial de Málaga, based in Melilla , sentenced a 32-year-old officer of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía to a total of nine years and six months’ imprisonment. The court found it proven that the defendant had committed rape and was guilty of corruption of minors. The sentence comprises seven years and six months for rape and two years for corruption of minors.
According to the written grounds for the judgment, cited in press reports, contact with the victim, who was 17 at the time, began via the classified ads platform Wallapop: the defendant had registered on 1 November 2022 under a pseudonym and posted several advertisements, including one entitled "se necesita niñera", which the court considered to have been a pretext. Through this profile, he obtained the teenager’s phone number and continued communicating via WhatsApp using a SIM card registered to someone else.
The judges considered the analysed chat logs, witness statements and medical findings to be key evidence. According to the judgment, the victim repeatedly rejected his advances; nevertheless, the defendant offered her money for sexual contact and arranged a meeting under the pretext of an employment agreement. The court also imposed a restraining and no-contact order in relation to the victim, as well as professional disqualifications from roles involving regular contact with minors; it also ordered the confiscation of the vehicle in which the offence took place.
The decision is not yet final; the judgment may be appealed to the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía, Ceuta y Melilla . The Audiencia Provincial de Málaga is hearing the case in its Sección VII, based in Melilla, and the written grounds expressly highlight the digital context in which contact was initiated — via a classified ads platform.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).