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Madrid, Feb. 23, 2017 (dpa/NAN) A serial paedophile who abducted and molested at least four girls in Spain had been sentenced to 70 years in prison, a report said on Thursday.
The report noted that Spanish court found the 44-year-old Spaniard guilty of sexual assault, unlawful detention and bodily harm.
It stated that the man had terrorised middle-class Ciudad Lineal neighbourhood of Madrid for months since the beginning of 2013.
The report added that the convict was taken into custody in September 2014 in Santander, some 400 km north of the capital, after a cellphone wiretap operation and three days of surveillance.
Authorities considered him Madrid’s most-wanted criminal at the time and solicited the help of FBI officials in the U.S. during their investigations.
The court took it to be demonstrated that the man abducted at least four girls between the ages of five and nine years and molested them.
He had pleaded not guilty in spite of the presence of his DNA on the victims. (dpa/NAN) OYE/HA
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole