A woman was sexually assaulted by 5 men. A Spanish court says it's not rape.
Two years ago, an 18-year-old was allegedly gang-raped at the Running of the Bulls festival in Spain.
One night, the woman told police, five men in their mid-20s offered to walk her to her car. But instead of accompanying her to the vehicle, they pinned her against a wall, told her to “shut up,” then took turns sexually assaulting her. One man even stole her phone before they left, she alleged.
The woman was later found curled in a fetal position, crying in “a distraught state.” She went to the police, who made arrests the next day.
The subsequent trial in what has been called the “Wolf Pack” case, named for a WhatsApp group of which the defendants were members, consumed Spain's attention for nearly two years.
Much of the trial revolved around short videos the defendants took of the woman during the attack. In the clips, the woman is seen in a “passive, submissive stance,” with her eyes closed. The men's attorneys said this was evidence that she'd consented. They also pointed to a report compiled by a private investigator who secretly followed the victim in the days after the incident. He took pictures of her smiling and laughing with friends — evidence, the defense team said, that the woman had not been traumatized.
The woman's attorneys pushed back against the idea that she had offered her “consent.”
“The defendants want us to believe that on that night they met an 18-year-old girl, living a normal life, who, after 20 minutes of conversation with people she didn’t know, agreed to group sex involving every type of penetration, sometimes simultaneously, without using a condom,” prosecutor Elena Sarasate said, according to the Guardian.
The judge did not allow the jury to consider the WhatsApp chats among the men, who texted “us five are f---ing one girl” and “there is video” shortly after the attack. In other chats, the men joked about drugging women, then raping them. One even shared video of one of the men assaulting another woman, who appeared unconscious.
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