From The Lily adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Siohban O’Grady:
“The case involves a group of men in Pamplona, Spain, taking turns filming themselves sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl in the lobby of a building. But two Spanish courts have thus far fallen short of determining they had raped her: Instead, the courts ruled that the group was guilty of “continuous sexual abuse” rather than rape, which resulted in a sentence of nine years in prison for each of the men.
The Guardian reported that the legal distinction between sexual abuse and rape in Spain comes down to whether the attack was violent or included intimidation. Now the case, which prompted protests and the formation of a committee to overhaul Spain’s penal code on sexual violence, heads to the country’s Supreme Court.
The event happened in July 2016, when the men offered to walk the 18-year-old woman to her car. Instead, they led her to the lobby. Police arrested five men the next day, but in April, a Spanish court did not determine they had raped her.”
