Five Cuban Volleyball Players Jailed For Gang Rape In Finland
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published September 20, 2016 | 06:40 PM
HELSINKI, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -20th Sept,2016) : A Finnish court on Tuesday jailed five members of Cuba's national volleyball team for gang raping a woman during a Volleyball World League championship in July and filming the attack.
According to the charge sheet, four of the players subjected the woman, whose identity was not revealed, to an hour-and-a-half ordeal which they filmed and photographed. These four, team captain Rolando Cepeda Abreu (27), Abrahan Alfonso Gavilan (21), Ricardo Calvo Manzano (19) and Osmany Uriarte Mestre (21) received five-year prison sentences for aggravated rape.
A fifth player, Luis Sosa Sierra (21), received a shorter sentence of three years and six months, while the court acquitted a sixth teammate, Dariel Albo Miranda (24).
The Pirkanmaa district court in southern Finland ruled the woman had met some of the players at a basement nightclub in the hotel where the Cuban team was staying during the tournament in Tampere on the night of July 2.
She later agreed to go upstairs to Uriarte Mestre's room and the two had sex, at first with her consent. But Uriarte Mestre then invited Calvo Manzano -- followed by his other teammates -- to the room without her consent, the court found.
According to the prosecutor, Uriarte Mestre, Calvo Manzano, Cepeda Abreu and Alfonso Gavilan "had together and in mutual understanding forced (the victim) to several acts of sexual intercourse by means of violence and by taking advantage of (her) fear and state of helplessness."
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