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Big Brother Spain: Contestant gets jail time for sexual assault

By Antoinette Radford
BBC News
A former contestant on Big Brother Spain has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for sexually assaulting a fellow contestant.

José María López assaulted a female participant on the reality TV show in 2017 after an alcohol-fuelled party.

The footage was never aired, and López was kicked off the show after the attack.

The judge said Lopez was "driven by a lustful impulse" and knew the victim was "in a drunken stupor".

Warning: Contains details some readers may find distressing
The victim reported the incident to police in 2018. The trial was due to start in February 2022, but was delayed because she did not feel able to testify.

López and the woman had been in a relationship inside the Big Brother house before the attack.

The judge said López took the victim's trousers off while the pair shared a bed, before making "sexual movements" under the duvet.

The victim said "I can't" before "the defendant's lewd movements continued for several minutes, until the victim's face and arm were uncovered, revealing her unconscious state, prompting [the producers] to intervene," the judge wrote.

López said he did not realise his victim was unconscious.

The judge said he treated the victim as a "intimacy gadget", "without there being the slightest shadow of consent and, consequently, of freedom on her part in what happened," El País reported.

The next morning, the producers showed the victim the video of the assault in the confessions room.

Despite López receiving a 15-month sentence, it is unclear whether he will spend any time in jail.

Under Spanish law, people who receive a sentence of less than two years and have no prior criminal record do not always have to serve time in prison.

The judge also imposed a four-year restraining order on López, during which time he is not allowed to contact the victim. He was ordered to pay her €6,000 (£5,298) in compensation.

The Spanish production company that made the show, Zeppelin Televisión SA must also pay compensation for "moral damage" caused by not providing enough support to the victim.

The assault only became public two years after it happened when a Spanish news website, El Confidencial, released footage of the moment producers showed the victim the assault video.

Big Brother was first launched in the Netherlands in 1999. It is a popular reality TV show where contestants stay in a purpose-built home for many weeks without access to the outside world, and all their actions are filmed.

The show has been embroiled in several controversies, including in Australia in 2006 when two male contestants were removed for assaulting a woman on the show.

How the victim was told
This is what was said by the victim and Big Brother after she was shown images of the attack, according to the video published by El Confidencial.

Victim: Are people going to see this? The voiceover promises the images will not be shown or shared in any way. Where is he?

Voice: José María has been expelled definitively.

Victim: So, I cannot even have a conversation with him, right?

Voice: No. We want you to know that the organisation doesn't condone this kind of behaviour.

Victim: Nor do I condone it - how could I? What feels unfair is that I can't talk to him because he didn't say anything to me. Well, you know that he didn't tell me; you know it all too well.

Voice: We want you to know that you have our complete support, psychological and in terms of family.

Victim: I don't want to talk to a psychologist; I want to talk to my friends out there [in the Big Brother house]. And I need you assure me that this will not be broadcast because obviously I'm going to talk about all of this.

The Voice refuses her request to see her housemates.

Voice: For you and José María, this matter shouldn't leave this room.

She pleads to be let out of the diary room, but the door only opens when an executive producer and a psychologist enter to take her off the set and to a nearby hotel.

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