The Madrid Prosecutor's Office demands a sentence of six years in prison for D. L. M., whom it accuses of devising various false stories in order to continue receiving money from people who had responded to her call for financial help for her husband after his intervention in a TVE program.
According to the Public Ministry, the accused would have managed to gather 411,920 euros between March 2015 and March 2019, which is why she is attributed with a continued crime of fraud. The trial is scheduled for next Tuesday in the Provincial Court of Madrid.
The origin of the case is situated on February 19, 2014, when the woman appeared on the TVE program "Entre todos" to request financial support for her husband, who had suffered a traffic accident and needed a medical device that the family could not afford.
According to the indictment, the traffic accident did occur and, after her appearance on television, the woman began to receive donations from several viewers, some of up to 1,000 euros, which were deposited into a joint bank account held by the couple.
The Prosecutor's Office argues that, after verifying the "receptiveness" of two of the donors, the accused chose to continue asking them for money and also contacted three other people using a mobile phone. To do this, she would have been "weaving different stories that turned out to be false" in order to ensure a continuous flow of funds.
The Public Ministry details that the accused would have ruthlessly exploited the deep religious sentiment of one of the victims, from whom she would have obtained 351,320 euros. From the other three affected individuals, she would have managed to obtain another 60,600 euros, totaling the 411,920 euros that are considered defrauded.
The events, according to the Prosecutor's Office, would have developed continuously from March 2015 until March 12, 2019.