Overview
- The Audiencia Provincial’s Second Section in Palma imposed nine years in prison and ordered €20,000 for moral damages plus €1,480 for recovery days.
- The court found that in October 2022 the father, alone with his daughter in the bathroom during cleaning, engaged in sexual contact that resulted in infection.
- Expert evidence concluded skin contact is insufficient and there is no scientific support for transmission via towels, sponges or bath water.
- The child underwent antibiotics and genital washes with warm water and chlorhexidine, with medical care lasting about a year.
- Prosecutors had sought 15 years; the defense denies abuse, attributes infection to shared bathing or towels, has announced an appeal, and the ruling is not yet final.