The Provincial Court of Almería has confirmed the penalties of two years in prison to the coach and historical player of the Spanish volleyball team and the Almería Cosme Pretafeta Volleyball Club For sexually abusing two players whom he kissed without his consent, in addition to touching the buttocks to one of them.
The sentence, to which Efe has had access, dismisses an appeal against the original ruling that declared proven that Prenfeta, coach of the volleyball team in which the two victims militated, the two victims militated, On December 28, 2020 celebrated a Christmas meal at his home, which was attended by all the players of said team.
Around 6:00 p.m., after the rest of the companions left, the victims stayed alone with the coach, “consuming alcoholic beverages and Participating in a game that consisted of asking sexual questions and drink alcohol sucks. “
During this game, with “mood to satisfy their lubricious desires”, The defendant approached one of the girls in the living room and grabbed her by the neck with one hand to kiss her mouth that “lasted several seconds.” The victim tried to separate and separated Pretafeta with her arms.
All this happened while the other victim was in the bathroombut when the defendant returned he approached her three times in the kitchen, on the terrace and in a room to kiss her in the mouth and neck, and on one of these occasions he touched his buttocks.
“These facts occurred without the consent of the victimssuffering both an anxious depressive symptomatology as a result of the facts described, “adds the failure.
A appeal that requested the nullity of the trial was filed against the judgment of instanceas well as that the actions were dotted to be able to celebrate a new oral view in which a psychological expert was practiced that had initially been admitted and subsequently denied.
The Almeria audience now points out that “The witness statement has been, essentially, repeated in the different manifestations provided (…), when the defendant has recognized kisses, although he maintains that they were consented. ”
Thus, the sentences of one year in prison are ratified for each of the two crimes of sexual abuse for which it had been convicted Prenfeta, for which there are also imposed on 200 meter departure for three years and the payment of compensation of 3,000 euros to each of the injured.
