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Date Published: 15/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Icelandic paedophile sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in Torre Pacheco, but will only have to do community service

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The pensioner from Iceland had already served time in his home country before molesting at least six children in Spain between 2020 and 2021

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Icelandic paedophile sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in Torre Pacheco, but will only have to do community service

In the spring of 2021, the Guardia Civil arrested an Icelandic retiree living in the village of San Cayetano, in Torre Pacheco, for allegedly sexually abusing eight minors.

This man, known locally in the town as ‘El Inglés’ (despite not being English) had already served a sentence in his own country for raping four children in 1988. He later went to live in Colombia, and subsequently took refuge in Murcia.

His trial here in Spain is now over, and he pleaded guilty and admitted to his crimes against six of the eight children. While he was convicted, he is nevertheless out on probation now after being given a suspended sentence as requested by his defence team, and which was not opposed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The man has been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for three crimes of attempted sexual abuse of minors under the age of 16, two crimes of corruption of minors, three crimes of showing pornographic material to minors and three crimes of communicating with minors by showing pornographic images of minors, as stated in the sentence of the 5th Section of the Provincial Court, based in Cartagena.

However, this prison sentence has been suspended on condition that he does not commit any more crimes and does not approach his victims. He will also have to do some community service.

He gained their trust with dog walking, then tried to touch their penises

The crimes took place between May 2020 and the spring of 2021, when he was finally arrested, and the victims were all minors aged between 9 and 15 years old.

He is said to have used walking his dogs as one of the pretences to get close to the children, and having gained their trust this way, he tried to touch the penis of two of them.

Another victim, who reportedly went to the man’s house, was “cornered against the wall” while the man “put his hand on the inner part of his right thigh at the height of his genitals, without touching them, and with the other hand he tried to pull down his trousers. The minor refused, [but] the accused asked repeatedly to let him see it, referring to his penis, and the minor left the house scared and running.”

He also offered two of the children money “to come to his home alone, in order to have sex with them, offering one up to 100 euros and the other 30 or 35 euros in exchange for spending ‘twenty happy minutes’.”

In addition, three children were shown pornographic videos showing both adults and minors. To three children, he sent messages by WhatsApp containing “pornographic photographs in which the genitals of minors were represented with drawings of animals”.

The decision of the court is that the man will now be on probation for a decade, but the sentence of the Provincial Court is not final and can be appealed before the High Court of Justice (TSJ).

Image: Guardia Civil

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