The Council of Ministers approves the partial pardon for Juana Rivas
The Council of Ministers has approved granting a partial pardon to Juana Rivas, Maracena's mother sentenced for not delivering her two children to their father for a month, convicted of mistreatment in 2009. Her sentence of two and a half years in prison, executive sources confirm to elDiario.es, is reduced by half by which will not have to continue serving the sentence in prison.
The Supreme Court rejects the total pardon to Juana Rivas but leaves the door open to a partial one
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The agreement, according to the newspaper The country, also commutes his penalty of disqualification to exercise parental authority. The Supreme Court imposed six years of "special disqualification for the exercise of parental authority" and the Council of Ministers transforms this sentence into 180 days of work for the benefit of the community. In return, Rivas will not be able to commit a new crime in the next four years.
Juana Rivas was firmly sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Supreme Court. The neighbor of Maracena (Granada) disappeared with her two minor children in the summer of 2017 so as not to hand them over to her father, Francesco Arcuri, convicted of abuse in 2009 and whom she then accused of sexist violence. At first the Andalusian courts imposed on him up to five years in prison but the Supreme Court chose to charge him with only one crime of child abduction.
Her defense requested a clemency after the reduction of her sentence while she awaited a decision in the Social Insertion Center 'Matilde Cantos' from Granada after the annulment of the third prison degree. Both the Prosecutor's Office and the Supreme Court itself opposed granting a total pardon but left the door open to a partial grace measure that would prevent compliance behind bars. In the case of the Supreme Court, the judges were unable to adopt a unitary position.
