A woman who fled Ibiza ten years ago with her son has requested to reopen the child sex abuse case she reported in 2015 against the child’s father, after the man was convicted of abusing another minor and was recently retried for a second case.
The defense considers that this new information may be decisive in reviewing a case that was once closed.
The woman reported in 2015 that her son, then three years old, had been abused by his father. As her lawyer, Diego Herchhoren, explained to IB3 Noticias, the forensic reports collected in that investigation indicated anal dilatation, hypersexualized behavior and maturational delay. In spite of this, the Court of Instruction number 2 of Ibiza decided to close the case.
Fearing for the child’s safety, the woman left Ibiza and moved abroad. Since then she has been subject to an international search and arrest warrant for parental kidnapping, a measure that her lawyer has requested to be withdrawn seven times, without success so far.
Father convicted in 2024 of abusing a 15-year-old girl
The accused man, a tattoo artist from Cala de Bou, was convicted in January 2024 of having sexually abused a 15-year-old girl.
In addition, this month he has again sat in the dock of the Provincial Court, accused of sexually assaulting a Scottish woman during the performance of a tattoo.
These are not the only complaints she has accumulated: according to the information provided by the woman’s defense, there were at least two previous complaints filed by British women in 2005 and 2008.
The mother will ask to reopen the case and review her legal situation.
Faced with this new conviction and the open trials against the father, the woman wants her son’s case to be reopened. His lawyer argues that the appearance of new evidence and background information justifies the revision of the file.
In addition, it will contribute this information to the procedure to have the international search and arrest warrant lifted, which prevents the woman from regularizing her situation and returning to the country without the risk of being arrested.
The defense insists that the woman acted out of a need to protect her son and that the court file, together with the subsequent conviction of the father for abuse of another minor, makes it necessary to re-examine the case.
The decision on the reopening is now up to the competent judicial bodies.
