A neighbor from Lugo has been sentenced to a financial penalty of more than 21,000 euros for touching a woman’s buttocks in the city, in proceedings seen in the courts of Lugo during a general strike day that passed without incidents in the court bodies.
This Wednesday, the trials at Criminal Court No. 1 were scheduled, and it carried out all the hearings planned with complete normality. In the Provincial Court, for its part, there were no court dates listed for this date anymore.
Among the expedited trials processed is the agreement of conformity reached in a case of sexual abuse, in which the accused has accepted the payment of a fine of just over 21,000 euros for touching a woman’s buttocks without her authorization.
The events date back to the afternoon of July 21, 2022, when the defendant, born in 1982 and with no computable criminal record for the purposes of repeat offending, “approached the victim and, with a lustful intent and without her consent, touched her buttocks with both hands,” according to what was recorded in the written submission of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The defendant has admitted his responsibility and has signed an agreement of conformity with the Prosecutor’s Office, under which he assumes payment of a fine of 21,000 euros, to be paid in 24 monthly installments, in replacement for the two years of prison that had been requested in the first instance.
The public prosecution has assessed two mitigating circumstances: that at the time of the assault the man was under the effects of narcotic substances, and the subsequent confession during the investigation phase, in which he already asked the victim for forgiveness.