After Buzzfeed News published an investigation on Moroccan women working in strawberry farms in Southern Spain, revealing that some of them are subjected to abuse and sometimes rape, Spanish authorities made their first arrest in connection with the case. The arrest comes as the Moroccan Ministry of Employment denied on several occasions the veracity of the alleged sexual abuses.
The Marrakech appeal court sentenced, Thursday, the man who sexually assaulted a girl in Benguerir to 10 years in prison. The 21-year-old man was arrested in March after he appeared in a viral video trying to rape a young girl.