What seemed to be a night of partying harder than the usual television program 'Big Brother' ended up being one of the few episodes that television has experienced in recent years. During the 'Revolution' edition, released in 2017, the contestant José María López will be expelled from the contest after allegedly raping Carlota Prado, another participant in the program.
The events date back to the night of November 3, 2017. Both contestants had begun a sentimental relationship that lasted the program and that day they were celebrating, along with other participants, a party at the house of Guadalix de la Sierra, where they consumed alcoholic beverages.
After one in the morning, and already in the bedroom, the defendant helped the young woman, who was semi-conscious, to get into bed. According to the letter from the Prosecutor's Office, López "knowing the state of semi-consciousness in which she found herself, began to make movements with a clear sexual content, despite the fact that, babbling weakly, she said 'I can't'."
Next, the defendant pressed his body against that of the young woman "for the sake of satisfying her sexual desire, despite the fact that she raised her hand on two occasions as if to say stop." López repeatedly asked the contestant to open her eyes, but the victim remained motionless. Under her duvet, he "continued to touch, rub and move with a clearly sexual content, stripping the victim of her clothing." It was not until 1.40:XNUMX in the morning when a member of the program who was in charge of viewing the images intervened, after the young woman uncovered her face and her arm "leaving her inert state."
The case came to court exactly five years ago and it was last February when her trial, but this was suspended after the absence of the young woman, who as a result of psychiatric problems was unable to appear before the judge. This Thursday, November 3, she resumes her hearing.
Finally, the trial will be held without her, since Prado resigned last week to exercise the private prosecution. According to her already published by ABC, the young woman "refuses to compare a trial assisted by a private attorney and that she does not want to be appointed a court-appointed attorney." In addition, the lawyer who until now had dealt with the defense of the former contestant had resigned a few days earlier.
The case is in the hands of the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor's Office, who is asking for 2 years and 6 months for the defendant for a crime of sexual abuse. He also claimed compensation of 6.000 euros from the accused for the moral damages caused to the victim, the same amount that he asks the producer of the program for the damages caused as a result of the exhibition of the recorded images.
