Until five years internment in a closed system and three years probation it is the maximum penalty that could meet the young man who has confessed to the murder of his parents and his brother in Elche, in the event that a juvenile court convicted him. A crime that has shocked the province and has returned to stir up old controversies the Minor’s Law. If a person with 18 years had committed these same crimes, the sentence to be imposed would be the reviewable permanent prison. In the case of minors, at the age of 21 they would be free and totally free of criminal records, in order to facilitate their social reintegration.
This Sunday will be a week since a court ordered the internment of the 15-year-old boy who confessed to having killed his parents and his 10-year-old brother with a shotgun. As he told the investigators themselves, on Tuesday, February 8, he first shot his mother while she was sitting on a sofa after an argument over the grades. Next, he killed the ten-year-old boy who came to the room alerted by the detonations. And finally, he waited up to four hours for his father to return from work to greet him with gunfire. He then dragged the bodies to a shed and stayed in the house playing a video game for three days, until other family members showed up to see what was going on. He is charged with a total of three murders.. Since last Sunday, he has been hospitalized in a juvenile center in Valencia, while the judicial investigation of the triple crime continues.
The triple parricide of Elche he is not the first minor to sit on the bench for having killed his parents. In 1994, Cyril Jaquet was sentenced to only two years in prison for having killed his parents in Benijófar. He was 15 years old and the previous Law for Minors was applied to him. José Rabadán, known as the murderer of the katana, was sentenced to six years in prison and another two of supervised release for having killed his parents and sister in Murcia on April 1, 2000. Similar sentences are what he would have to face the minor now detained in Elche, in case of being convicted. In a few days he will be 16 years old. The sources consulted by this newspaper indicated that The maximum age to be hospitalized is 21 yearsso the time it would be in the center would be five.
The Law of the Minor in Spain does not seek so much the punishment of the author of a crime, as their reeducation and social reintegration. This same legislative text also provides that once the convicted person reaches the age of 18, he can spend the remainder of his sentence in a prison, although the sources consulted by this newspaper ruled out that it would happen in this case. Once this sentence has been served, he would have to spend up to a maximum of three years on probation, a time in which the offender is subject to special supervision so that he acquires the necessary skills for his social integration.
Instruction
According to the forecasts that are handled in the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation would not take long. Sources from the Benalúa Palace of Justice, where the juvenile courts are located, indicated that the case could be judged and sentenced in three months. At this time, the investigation is awaiting the analysis of all the traces collected at the crime scene.
The confession of the main suspect and the amount of details he provided about how the events unfolded could even make it unnecessary to travel to Elche to participate in a reconstruction of the murders, a test that is usually common in this type of investigation. It is not expected that he will leave the center until the moment of transfer to the courts for the trial arrives.. Unless the minor or his lawyer requested a new statement.
Inheritance
The sources consulted by this newspaper indicated that, according to the Civil Code, the minor could not inherit the house, nor the assets of their murdered parents. People who had been sentenced in court for having attempted against the life of their parents would not even have the right to legitimate life. Although the judicial sources indicated by this newspaper indicated that for this to take effect, it would be necessary for someone to exercise it through the court.