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The criminal known as Lardero's monster (in the photo below) is one more representative of a type of criminal with a very defined profile: a sexual offender, without empathy, with traces of a lone wolf and, frequently, a murderer, as we have discussed in the latest installment of our Dossier Negro podcast. The subject we are talking about is not the prototype of a predator that acts in a herd like the latest cases that are so topical; especially since many of them are carried out by minors. This social anomaly will one day be the subject of this newsletter, but now we are addressing the case of Francisco Javier Almeida and how he was able to act over and over again; the extent to which the system failed that he was unable to prevent or prevent recidivism. He is now serving a sentence himself, but he has already been in jail before and has always reoffended. Until now, every time he has gone out into the street, he rapes and kills, sometimes an adult, sometimes a child.
The Spanish black chronicle is unfortunately full of cases in which the sexual offender resumes his criminal activity very shortly after being released from prison. Sometimes, he does it without even having served the first 72 hours on the street, as was the case of Pedro Jiménez, still incarcerated today, who killed and raped two trainee policewomen while taking advantage of his first prison leave of his umpteenth sentence.
Out of control. The so-called law of only yes is yes has had unintended consequences for the legislator. It has caused the opposite of what was intended. In certain cases, women have been left unprotected because dangerous sex offenders have been released prematurely and nothing has been done to prevent it. One of those cases is that of Daniel Padial, who took to the streets for the benefits of the new law, despite being a high-risk inmate. Today his whereabouts are unknown.
Reinserted or disguise aces. Criminological literature is littered with books, studies, and treatises on rapists. Special voluntary programs are designed for them so that they remain in prison. Some manage to put their sexual behavior back together and others don't or don't even try. Of course, most of them, like Lardero's monster, have an excellent behavior inside prison.
The victims. Sexual assault causes very serious psychological injuries, as much or more than any other physical attack that can cause. Those of those who have suffered a rape are stories of profound alterations, so much so that they may seem imperceptible on the surface. It is terrible to know that some are mortified when remembering that fear paralyzed them, when the blockade is a highly frequent neurological response in these cases and the subject of various studies.
A universal evil. Cases of sexual violence are not typical of a region or area of the planet. It is a widespread evil. The UN often points out that one in three women on the planet suffers some type of sexual assault. Europe is by no means an exception. Volker Eckert was a trucker who traveled the entire continent and at his pace he was killing prostitutes. In France, the one known as the ogre of the Ardennes, Michel Fourniret, paradoxically, helped himself to his rapes and atrocious crimes by his wife, Monique Olivier. His story is collected in an impressive documentary series.
