THE VEGA.- The first Collegiate Court of La Vega sentenced a man who sexually abused an eight-year-old girl to twenty years in prison.
Is about Radhames Acosta Brunowho must comply with it at the El Pinito Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in this town.
The mother of the minor, whose name is omitted for the protection of the victim’s privacy, was also sentenced to five years in prison, for complicity.
According to the file of the Public Ministry that on several occasions the man touched the girl inappropriately and that she told her mother, who paid no attention to her.
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The Comprehensive Care Unit for Gender, Intrafamily Violence and Sexual Crimes of La Vega opened an investigation, based on a complaint, and proceeded to arrest both defendants on August 10, 2020, by court order.
The head prosecutor of this judicial district, Aura Luz García Martínez, explained that in the process the Public Ministry presented sufficient evidence to support the accusation.
Before the court, prosecutor Yamilka de la Cruz demonstrated the violations of various articles of the Dominican Penal Code and the Code for the Protection and Fundamental Rights of Children and Adolescents (Law 136-03).
