A Spanish judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to ten years in prison for the murder of a minor who committed suicide.
The man was found guilty of murder by a popular jury last July, after the 17-year-old’s suicide was found to be caused by a man who has now been sentenced to ten years in prison by the Valencian Community Courts.
During the investigation, it was proven that 62-year-old Vicente Paradís sent 119 threatening and threatening contents to the boy in December 2016, within 3 hours, through the WhatsApp application.
Messages were sent after a contact on a social network on the initiative of the boy, but the teenager did not want to continue.
The boy replied to the condemned man on WhatsApp, apologizing to him, warning him that he was a minor and even wrote that he would commit suicide if he continued to receive such messages.
The court ruling, cited by the media, said that despite being “fully aware” of the “pain and uneasiness” he was causing the boy, and the “high probability” of the teenager’s suicide, he continued to send messages, “I informed you”.
The boy committed suicide the same day, in the afternoon, by jumping from the window of the apartment where he lived.
The sentence, subject to appeal, also established compensation of 173 thousand euros for moral damages to the boy’s parents and brother.
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