Jenni Beautiful has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office for the non-consensual kiss he received from Luis Rubiales, the president of the Federation, after winning the Women’s World Cup in Sydney on August 20. It is the first step of a legal nature that the forward of the Spanish team has taken after denouncing in a public statement that she had felt “vulnerable and a victim of aggression” by the federation leader in Sydney. Prosecutor sources have revealed that Jenni Hermoso appeared this past Tuesday before the lieutenant prosecutor of the National Court Marta Durántez at the State Attorney General’s Office to formally denounce Rubiales and the public prosecutor now intends to file a complaint for the facts in “the as soon as possible.” Rubiales is suspended by FIFA for 90 days, in addition to preventing him from having any contact with the player.
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After the complaint, the National Court Prosecutor’s Office, which was the one that offered Hermoso the possibility of denouncing Rubiales for a crime of sexual assault, will soon file a complaint against him.
In this sense, the decree of the lieutenant prosecutor indicated that “in view of the public demonstrations made by Ms. Jennifer Hemoso, the sexual act suffered by her and carried out by Mr. Rubiales, was not consented to”, therefore that it was considered that “given the unequivocal nature of his statements& rdquor; it was necessary to determine “the legal significance of the same”-
The TAD (Sports Administration Court), meanwhile, had already determined that the event “was serious” and not “very serious”, for which reason it prevented the CSD (Superior Sports Council) from acting, which demanded the immediate suspension of its functions. to Rubiales.
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Now, the case enters a legal scenario after Jenni Hermoso’s complaint against Rubiales, so what happened could fit into article 178 of the Penal Code, which provides for prison sentences of one to four years, as responsible for sexual assault, whoever performs any act that violates the sexual freedom of another person without their consent.
It must be remembered that the statute of limitations for the crime is five years. In this type of crime, the key lies in demonstrating that there was no consent, as Jenni Hermoso has already made clear.