Homophobic insulting parents on trial

The Valencia Court will hear evidence from today against the parents of a minor as they stand accused of a hate crime for insulting their daughter’s girlfriend with defamatory expressions, some of which were expressly related to sexual orientation, including the phrase, “don’t come near my daughter, you have a disease and you’re passing it on to my daughter.”

The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for one year and eight months in prison for each of the two parents of the minor, whom it accuses of using offensive expressions related to homosexuality to their daughter’s girlfriend, also a minor.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the victim began a romantic relationship with the defendants’ daughter, which did not please them, since they considered that their daughter should not have relationships with women, but with men.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that, while the relationship lasted, the accused addressed the injured party with insults, driven by animosity towards her sexual orientation. Incidents were repeated during the summer of 2021 when the couple met the victim on the street or leaving school in a municipality in the La Safor region where they all resided.

The public prosecution reports in its provisional indictment that, in October of the same year, the accused went to the fairgrounds where their daughter and the victim were with other friends, and addressed the latter in a very agitated and aggressive manner, with insults and very violent non-verbal language that frightened the minors, until the security guards of the venue intervened.