The Celta player, however, has been acquitted of the crime of sexual assault requested by the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution
Celta footballer Santi Mina has been sentenced to four years in prison for sexually abusing a woman on June 18, 2017 in Mojácar (Almería). The player gets rid of the conviction for sexual assault. According to the sentence, Mina did not act with violence or intimidation, as the prosecutor considered, to qualify the crime as sexual assault. Judge Társila Martínez and the court acquit Mina for this type of crime for which the Prosecutor’s Office requested eight years in prison and the private prosecution, nine and a half.
Finally, Santi Mina’s sentence is four years in prison with a restraining order of 500 meters from the victim for 12 years and the payment of compensation of 50,000 euros.
David Goldar, the other footballer involved, has been acquitted for the only crime he was charged with. The private prosecution requested conviction, in this case as a necessary collaborator, for sexual assault for the current Ibiza player but neither the Prosecutor’s Office then, nor now the Court have considered it proven.
Santi Mina, in his statement before the judge.
The trial was seen for sentencing after the Public Ministry made its conclusions final and interested in the sentence of eight years in prison, estimating that there was “an accumulation, a cascade” of “evidence” that proved that the Celta de Vigo had committed a sexual assault.
The Celta player’s defense argued that it had been proven that the complainant “gave her consent at all times” since when “she asked him to stop, he stopped as she herself confirmed” during her statement “in court” and alleged that, in In any case, there was an error of the invincible type because, according to the lawyer, “if there was no consent, of course he did not know it until he verbalized it.”
