Agatha, her son loses his appeal and goes to jail after raping a 14 year old girl – Television

Marco Caneira, the son of singer Agatha, will serve a six-and-a-half-year sentence for the rape of a 14-year-old child in 2016. After the decision taken at trial, but the court of Lisbon appeal did not accept the justification and maintained the original sentence.

It's official. Marco Caneira will serve six and a half years in prison after raping a 14-year-old girl following a popular holiday in the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Remedios, located on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. The musical agent had already been sentenced to this sentence of imprisonment in the decision taken at first instance, but had resorted to punishment.

In order to defend himself, he asserted that, according to the first judgment, the victim would have had the opportunity to defend himself and to flee, which did not happen. The court did not agree and stated that "a physical tendency of the victim to commit a crime of rape can not be considered a form of acceptance or consent of the victim". aggression ", but rather" expresses only the desire to survive a situation ". he does not have control, "reads the new judgment to which the newspaper Correio da Manhã had access.