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| Subject: The Warlock, 'El Brujo', sentenced to 103 years in prison Fri Dec 24, 2010 3:27 am | |
| Tomás Arroyo has been found guilty of sexually abusing 13 young girls
Tomás Arroyo Rodríguez, the man known as ‘El Brujo’ – ‘The Warlock’, has been sentenced to 103 years in prison for the sexual abuse of 13 young girls under the pretext of helping them with his so-called powers.
EFE reports that two of them were aged just 11 and 12 at the time the abuse took place.
The provincial court in Palma de Mallorca also ordered compensation of more than 300,000 € and issued a distancing order which is to be in place for 109 years.
The court said in its ruling that, on first meeting the girls, he treated them in a ‘disparaging, cruel and hurtful way’, leaving them deeply confused, intimidated and open to obeying his orders. Ten of the 13 girls said they had sexual relations with other men on El Brujo’s orders.
Judge Mónica de la Serna, who led the panel of magistrates at the provincial court, described the testimony of the victims as ‘devastating’ evidence.
Europa Press however notes that El Brujo will only spend a maximum of 20 years in prison.
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