The Operational Unit for Minors and Family (UMEFA) of the General Corps of the Canary Islands Police (CGPC) investigates, in coordination with the Office of the Prosecutor for Minors, three minors for an alleged crime of sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl committed in a beach in the south of Tenerife, close to a nightlife area.
According to police sources, there are “clear indications” that a crime of sexual assault has been committed against the 13-year-old victim. The facts were brought to the attention of the agents after the complaint filed by the father of the minor last March.
According to a statement sent by the Justice Department of the Canary Islands Government, the group sexual assault occurred on a beach in the south of Tenerife in the wee hours of the morning, to which the victim, in a state of drunkenness or under the influence of some drug , was carried by the youth group. These were arrested and investigated to clarify the role they have played in said sexual assault, as well as their relationship with each other.
Investigators have had sufficient evidence that peripherally corroborates the version given by the minor victim, such as statements by eyewitnesses, or the conversations provided by her with one of her aggressors after suffering the attack. The possibility is even being considered that the events had been recorded by one of the aggressors, a circumstance that has not been confirmed so far.
For his part, the victim, who has had episodes of anguish after the group attack, has, according to the police version, clear indicators of helplessness, which has led to the transfer of the matter to the General Directorate for Child Protection and the Family, in order to provide adequate and immediate protection.
The investigation, carried out by the General Corps of the Canary Islands Police through the Minors and Family Unit (UMEFA), is still in progress.
