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Constitutional court dismisses oral-sex debt case
A top court in Spain has refused an appeal by a woman
allegedly forced into fellatio to repay a loan
Spain’s Constitutional Court has dismissed a case brought by a woman who claimed her former brother-in-law forced her to perform oral sex on him two to three times a week as a way of repaying a debt.
Earlier this week, the Tribunal Constitucional said it would not hear a case escalated to the court by a woman from Mallorca. Her case had been heard by a local court in Palma de Mallorca and the regional appeal court of the Balearic Islands, both of which said no crime had been committed.
When the appellant found herself short of money in 2019, the brother of her former partner had agreed to help, paying €15,000 into her bank account. She told the courts they had agreed that she could pay the money back bit by bit whenever she was able.
However, she alleged that the man, who was 20 years her senior, had forced her to perform fellatio and other sexual services two or three times a week in exchange for him having lent her the funds. The woman admitted visiting her ex-brother-in-law five times before breaking the arrangement.
After breaking her end of the bargain, she claimed she began receiving threatening messages from him, noting the possibility of “revenge” and of reporting her for non-payment of debt.
The woman reported the man to the police, but he maintained his innocence, claiming they’d reached “a deal to have sexual relations in return for lending her €15,000 without interest” and that “demanding compliance with a previously accepted deal does not constitute a crime.”
The local and regional appeal courts agreed with the creditor, ruling that the woman had freely engaged in sexual acts with the 58-year-old, the appeals court judge saying there was no evidence of sexual abuse or coercion.
The ruling has been criticized by feminists, including Spain’s equality minister, Irene Montero. “Only yes means yes. Without consent, it is rape. Consent implies the absence of coercion and threats,” Montero said in a tweet in December 2020.
The Constitutional Court has been accused in numerous local media outlets of endorsing the notion that a debt can be paid off with sexual favors.
Repeat child rapists will be sent to penal colonies in the ARCTIC for life
under proposals in Russia after horrific kidnap, rape & murder of girl, five
By WILL STEWART IN MOSCOW FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:26 EST, 6 January 2022
Russia is to toughen its child sex laws this month to automatically jail repeat paedophiles for life in harsh polar prisons.
Monsters who sexually abuse children should serve their sentences in hard labour penal colonies in the Arctic, where they could be forced to work in Siberian mines, the country's parliamentary speaker said.
The new legislation is being pushed through after a horrific case this week of a girl, five, who was abducted by a recidivist paedophile and his lover, then raped and stabbed to death.
Veronika Nikolayeva had been playing near her mother's workplace in Kostroma, and a video showed how she was snatched before being abused.
The helpless girl 'struggled and fought back' but passersby did not pay attention to her distress - and the men took her to their hostel.
Her corpse was later found in a duffle bag as the suspects, named Denis Gerasimov, 44, and Vadim Belyakov, 24, planned to dispose of her body.
Distressing footage shows the moment two men in Russia snatched a five-year-old girl and carried her through the snow and past unaware members of the public (video 0:36)
One of the suspects was named as Denis Gerasimov, 44 (left), earlier jailed for paedophile offences including producing child pornography. The other suspect Vadim Belyakov, 24 (right), reportedly has a conviction for theft
Both men confessed on video to her murder.
Parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, said the 'terrible tragedy' of Veronika's abuse and death showed the urgency of toughening laws.
'One of the detained men turned out to be a formerly convicted paedophile,' he said.
'Let's do everything for the law on life sentences for paedophiles to be adopted in January.'
He backed calls for even tougher measures by sending all paedophiles to polar regions to serve their sentence.
'Those convicted for such crimes should serve life sentences in the harshest conditions - in the extreme north (of Russia) or in mines.
'These b******s should undergo the hardest labour, so they remember the crimes they committed every day - and regret them.'
They 'cannot be called human', he said.
Alexander Khinstein, an influential MP in the main pro-Putin United Russia party, said: 'It is necessary to adopt our bill on life punishment for paedophile-rapists as soon as possible.'
All sex attackers released from jail should wear electronic tags, he said.
Maria Lvova-Belova, Putin's commissioner for children's rights, warned that sex attacks on children and adolescents have risen 79 per cent in the past eight years.
In this week's case, Gerasimov had been released from a sex crime conviction in March.
As the girl's body was removed from the suspects' hostel, a mob of locals demanded to be allowed to lynch the suspects.
The suspects are understood to have been in a long term, gay relationship since the younger man was underage.
The men told interrogators that the crime was 'spontaneous', it was reported. The younger one 'suggested that his partner catch the girl and make fun of her'.
When police raided the room shared by the suspects in a hostel, they found the girl's body hidden in a duffle bag, say law enforcement sources. The girl had been raped before she was killed.
Local news said that as soon as the information was made public, a mob formed.
'Immediately after the information about the detention of (the suspects) appeared, local residents gathered by the hostel, where the child's body was found,' reported 112 news outlet. 'They demanded the (suspected) murderers should be handed over and wanted to lynch them.'
A social media post said: 'This case shows again that the surveillance system for paedophiles does not work and gives them the opportunity to commit crimes again.'
Paedophile caught with 450,000 child pics is back in court
Plymouth man Mark Wilby, aged 39, has been arrested for the second time
with images of abuse
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A paedophile once caught with more than 450,000 vile images of children has again faced a court for having indecent pictures.
Mark Wilby, aged 39, had so many photos and videos back in 2014 the police could not classify them all, a court heard.
He was again caught accessing 118 images on his devices 18 months ago - including images of children being abused.
Wilby avoided prison seven years ago and walked out of Plymouth Crown Court with another suspended jail term.
Judge William Mousley said: "The pain and distress caused to these children is discernible within these images."
And, yet, you let him walk. 450,000 images means that child sex abuse images were his life. He had no time for anything else. Yet, you thought he was a good candidate for rehab. How absurdly stupid!
He added that the defendant was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation and had himself sought therapy soon after his arrest.
Right! Right after talking to his lawyer, I expect.
The judge said: "You have taken steps yourself to address your behaviour and so with some some hesitation the sentence of imprisonment which I must impose is one that will be suspended."
Judge Mousley handed Wilby an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years with sex offender treatment and probation supervision.
He was fined £6,000 and the devices used to access the images have been confiscated.
Wilby, of Townshend Avenue, Keyham, pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of indecent images of children in each category of seriousness on June 8, 2020.
Jason Beal, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said police had linked vile images to his IP address and searched his home.
He added that officers found 118 files, mostly videos, in a cloud storage system. The barrister said Wilby provided his password to police.
UK promises to put the ‘fear of God’ into domestic abusers
Senior government minister Dominic Raab has pledged a crackdown onviolence against womenUK promises to put the ‘fear of God’ into domestic abusers
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UK Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has vowed to put the “fear of God” into domestic abusers by addressing loopholes in the current legislation that allow “too many” offenders to avoid punishment.
Writing in The Telegraph, Raab committed to extending the time limit for victims of domestic violence to report crimes from six months to two years. He argued that the existing strictures had allowed “too many cases” to evade the courts simply because a victim was too afraid to come forward quickly, leaving them “timed out.”
The extension of the timeframe for prosecution is part of a package of measures being introduced by the deputy PM to combat violence against women and leave the “door to justice open to thousands” of people who’ve been domestically abused in the UK.
For many, the fear of being out alone after dark, or that they may be beaten in their own home, is a grim everyday reality. We must turn that situation around.
Figures cited by Raab show that the number of victims unable to prosecute an alleged offender because they ran out of time rose from 1,451 in 2016-17 to 3,763 in 2020-21.
The more time a couple spends together, the greater the test of their relationship. Some people are not ready for a real relationship, one that costs each partner in many ways. Men, who cannot deal with their feelings often resort to violence.
The changes he plans to institute are aimed at restoring confidence in the judicial system among women and to “instil the fear of God into the mind of anyone” who might consider abusing them, he said. They were made in response to a damning quasi-government report into the effectiveness of police engagement with women and girls, published last March, that spoke of an “epidemic” of gender-based violence.
He is, of course, talking about the fear of the government, not the fear of God. The fear of God would work much better, but there is little appetite for God these days.
Under the new legislation, the non-consensual taking of photographs or videos of breastfeeding mothers will now be a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. The move comes after Labour MP Stella Creasy raised concerns about having been photographed breastfeeding her baby on public transport.
Only a pervert would take photos of a mom breastfeeding her baby. MP Creasy seems to want to be able to breastfeed her baby in full view of perverts, as long as they don't take pictures. A simple baby's blanket would afford privacy and avoid the temptation.
Responding to the government’s announcement, Nicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, praised the rule changes as an effective way to “remove another barrier to bringing perpetrators to justice.”
The legislation will come into effect through amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.
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