Alexis Alicea Torres was accused of incest and sexual assault against his daughter, whom he allegedly impregnated, was sentenced to 48 years in prison after pleading guilty to the charges.
In October, a judge had found elements to hold a trial against the man for whats charges of incest, sexual assault, child abuse and threatening witnesses, formulated by prosecutors Marilisa Jiménez Serrano, Rosa Acevedo González and Andrés Veléz Rodríguez; The last two are assigned to the Specialized Unit for Domestic Violence, Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse of the Mayagüez Prosecutor’s Office.
The man, who He was arrested last August in the municipality of Lajasaccepted the charges against him of incest, sexual assault, child abuse and threatening witnesses.
Her daughter gave birth when she was 13 years old and DNA tests confirmed Alicea Torres’ paternity.
After his arrest, Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said that “this is an atrocious case,” which shocked and outraged Puerto Rican society.
“This individual took advantage of his daughter’s defenseless situation to abuse her, and not only got her pregnant, but also deprived her of her freedom by locking her and her baby in a residence,” he said.
Alicea Torres was arrested in the area of the Lajas Arriba neighborhood of the aforementioned municipality by members of the Police Intelligence and Arrest units, along with volunteers from the community and other government agencies, after five days of intense search, the details detailed. authorities in a statement.
Meanwhile, his ex-partner Liz A. Rodríguez, who had also pleaded guilty, will be sentenced at a later date once the court has the previous report to determine if he can benefit from a diversion or serve a 9-year sentence, to which he is exposed for three counts of child abuse.
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According to local media, Sergeant Luis O. Santana Nazario, director of the Sexual Crimes Division of the CIC of Mayagüez, reported that The events, which consisted of incest, physical and verbal abuse and threats against her 13-year-old daughter and caused her to become pregnant by her father and give birth to a girl, occurred between the years 2020 and 2023 in Lajas.
It is alleged that the woman left her locked in the house even when she was pregnant with her little brother.
The Family Department has provisional custody of the sexually assaulted minor, her one-year-old baby and the teenager’s three-year-old brother, since March 30 of this year.
According to the latest official statistics reported by the Police, in 2021, 1,031 victims of sexual abuse were reported in Puerto Rico, the most affected were mainly girls between 11 and 15 years old.
Among the 1,031 victims of sexual crimes reported in Puerto Rico, 74% were minors under 17 years of age, a situation that, according to experts, represents a trend in this type of cases and poses greater challenges to detect and address them effectively.
In all cases, the majority of sexual offenders are family members (51.9%). Therefore, there is a sexual assault crisis in Puerto Rico, where the majority of attacks are perpetuated by relatives of the victims and the vast majority of these victims are girls up to 17 years old.
According to the Puerto Rico Statistics Office, for the year 2021, sexual abuse of minors occurred in a higher proportion against girls (81.6%) than boys (18.4%).
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