Spain: The mother of the prison who was hiding with her children from their father because she abused her

A divorced mother in Spain was sentenced to five years in prison because she left and was hiding with her two children, although a court ordered their Italian father to take care of the children.

The woman accuses her ex-husband of domestic violence

The court of Granada, considering that Huaana Riva "exploited the argument of violence" to retain her two children aged 12 and 14 , condemned her for "abduction of a minor".

In addition to imprisonment, she will also have to pay 30,000 euros to her ex-partner and will not have custody of the children for a period of six years

Ribas accuses her ex-husband , Italian Francesco Arquri, of Violence

The woman fled Sardinia, where her couple lived with her two children in May 2016, and filed a domestic violence suit in July of the same year. Categories are denied by her ex-husband

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Judicial litigation on child custody became widely known in July 2017 when a court ruled in favor of Arkury and ordered his ex-wife to give him children.

After being hidden for a month with her children, she was handed over and surrendered to the authorities

The case sparked a heated controversy in Spain, where the fight against domestic violence is has become one of the top priorities of the government

Some have criticized the mother for refusing to obey the court's decision, saying the allegations of violence were false. Among her critics, there were women who complained about how she had benefited from the suffering of many other women

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Other women were at her side on the grounds that Francesco Arquire had previously been convicted of domestic violence against Huaiana Riva in 2009.

However, the Spanish court concluded that she has gone back to her husband's home and that she has acquired a second child is questioning her claims.

In a lawsuit filed in 2016, Riva claimed that he had lived a hell in Sardinia, describing that his partner "locked her up in a room for hours, hit her, struck, pulled her hair "and that especially the taller," suffered a lot and witnessed many incidents. "

However, the psychologist, who was appointed by the court to take care of the child, said that he had found no evidence of mental trauma due to the violence domestic

The court therefore concluded that there had been no further beatings after 2009.

With information from RES-BEF-AFP