The Girona Court has acquitted a resident of Blanes, in La Selva, who faced 37 years and nine months in prison accused of harassing minors through social networks to obtain pornographic images.
The twist in the case lies in the main evidence. The court has annulled the emptying of the accused's mobile phone, concluding that access to the device was made without his consent or authorization and without a sufficiently motivated judicial resolution.
The Girona Court annulled the mobile phone dump due to lack of valid authorization
The sentence maintains that this record of the phone could not be incorporated into the proceedings under the conditions in which it was carried out. From that decision, the evidentiary basis of the case was decisively affected.
The accused was charged with contacting minors on social networks to obtain images of a pornographic nature. For these acts, the Public Prosecutor's Office was seeking 37 years and nine months in prison for the accused.
Furthermore, the man had already been convicted on four previous occasions for crimes of child corruption and for the production, elaboration, or possession of pornographic material. One of those convictions was issued in Lleida.
The accused already had four previous convictions for sexual offenses against minors
These antecedents are recorded in the case, but they have not prevented the acquittal in this proceeding. The Girona Court has focused its analysis on the validity of the investigation and, specifically, on access to the content of the mobile phone.
The resolution is not final. The Girona Court's own sentence is appealable.
One of the details noted in the ruling is that among the four previous convictions of the Blanes resident is one issued in Lleida for crimes of child corruption and for the production, elaboration, or possession of pornographic material.