Carrascosa guilty in U.S. court

New Jersey Judge Donald Venezia Maria Jose Carrascosa condemned the U.S. prison in Spanish since 2006 by a dispute regarding custody of the daughter he had with an American.

"I maintain I am innocent. I would ask you another chance to prove my innocence, as an international court has ruled, Carrascosa asked the judge in the courtroom before knowing the ruling by the nine crimes that in November a jury found her guilty.

The sentence of 14 years in prison, may be appealed by the defenders of the Spanish.


Carrascosa, who arrived in handcuffs and with the green dress uniform of prey, listened tearfully to the judge saying that his case was "a real disgrace. This is a case of hatred and revenge that has created you, who has seen his daughter a mere property, a piece on the chessboard. Find: the game is over ".

The ruling by Judge Venezia, which can be appealed by the defenders of the Spanish, means that if Carrascosa the meet as a whole, his daughter, Victoria Solenne, the greater the age to an end, since the baby was born in 2000 .

The girl, who lives in Valencia with grandparents, older age is when Maria Jose is free.

The judge also said Mary Joseph, said the sentence, "is what he deserves for his daughter start her own arms and the arms of her ex-husband." "You should think that your daughter this Christmas will have neither a mother nor a father to be embraced, not open the presents with any of you," the judge said he Carrascosa, but noted it would reconsider the sentence in the case of the girl back to America.

The Spanish, 44 and a lawyer by profession, was married to Peter Innes between 1999 and 2004, and his daughter, who lives in Valencia with his grandparents, was born in April 2000.

Carrascosa decided in 2005 to take Spain to the daughter by Innes and since then has refused to return the U.S. to the child, as has been embroiled in a complex legal situation, which has been complicated with the time and in which there is a conflict of case law between the Spanish and American.

Carrascosa has always defended his decision to travel to Spain with his daughter because she wanted to escape from Innes, whom he accused of abuse and having tried to poison slowly with the supposed aim of keeping their heritage, she said during the trial.

The process began when on 23 August 2006 the New Jersey Superior Court decided, at the request of Innes, that within ten days the mother must give to the child.

As Carrascosa was that time in America, the New Jersey court took away his passport and banned him from leaving the country, thus, unable to return to Spain and give his daughter on time, Jose Maria hid to try to avoid imprisonment, until he was arrested on 21 November 2006.