Two of the seven aggressors of the multiple rape of Logroño are imputable since they are not yet 14 years old | Society

The group rape of two girls aged 12 and 13 in Logroño on Sunday was perpetrated by seven minors. The investigation leaves, for the moment, five detainees. After declaring throughout the morning of this Wednesday before the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, the Judge has ordered the internment in a closed regime for two of the defendants, and has issued a restraining order and prohibition to communicate with the victims for the other three. These three minors are still on file, that is, more investigative procedures will be carried out to find out their degree of involvement in the facts denounced. The other two involved, who have not yet reached 14 years of age, will remain under the guardianship of their families, since they cannot be required to be responsible for the criminal age. When the news was made public this past Tuesday, the authorities estimated that the number of attackers was between 10 and 12.

The events occurred on the night of last Sunday, April 9, in the basement of a building on Avenida de Navarra, near the old town of the capital of La Rioja. The minor aggressors stayed with the two victims after maintaining a first contact on Instagram at a point near the property. The group led the two girls to this location, at number 16 Avenida, an unoccupied house where the staff in charge of the concierge had lived for years, and which these young people used as a meeting place.

One of the shocked girls recounted what happened to the Logroño Local Police officers, with whom they met an hour and a half after the events. Three patrols immediately went to the place, where they identified some of the attackers, who were still there. The case has passed into the hands of the National Police, which continues with the investigations to clarify all the extremes and keeps the investigation open.

This case is the latest to be added to a list of multiple assaults that have generated alarm, aggravated by the age of the attackers and the victims, who go down to 11 years of age. The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has related this Wednesday the increase in cases of sexual assaults like these, by minors, with an increase in the number of complaints and the visibility of cases of sexual violence and greater confidence in the institutions. “Until now there was also a high prevalence rate, but it was not reported and [los casos] they remained invisible because they were ashamed or afraid to denounce it or because it was more difficult to identify it for what it was, because it was normalized”, the head of Equality assured in an interview on RNE.

Montero has also recognized the existence of “a big problem as a society,” alluding to studies that show that “the age of access to pornography is eight years.” For this reason, he has stressed the need for a compulsory sexual education in all educational stages, from childhood, which helps minors to talk about consent, to identify violence and to ask their references for help. He has also alluded to specific measures provided for in the Law on only if yesto guarantee “that there is a reproach to the aggressors who are minors”, he has also reiterated that the solution is for “education, prevention and awareness in all areas of society”.