The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJCV has partially upheld the appeals of two of the convicted women, but this decision does not alter the prison sentences set by the Provincial Court of Castellón. The court eliminated an aggravating factor related to the involvement of two or more people in one case and the kinship aggravating factor in another, although both convictions remain unchanged.

The ruling affects five convicted individuals, four women and one man, for acts that occurred between 2007 and 2022 within a community led by a man known as “Toni” or “Tío Toni,” who passed away over four years ago while in provisional detention for this case.

According to the judicial account now confirmed by the TSJCV, the group's leader claimed healing powers and eventually formed a community of followers under the belief that he was a being of light and that they had to save the world through sexual practices and rituals, in which he himself played a primary role.

The established facts place the group's activity in a farmhouse known as La Chaparra, in Vistabella del Maestrat, where the sexual abuse of minors took place. The sentence states that the children grew up “assuming a system of values, beliefs, and principles” imposed by the one known as “Tío Toni”.

After analyzing the appeals filed by the five convicted individuals, the court concluded that the sentence from the Court of Castellón is “entirely correct,” both in its assessment of the evidence presented during the trial and in the legal consequences derived from the facts.

The magistrates also support the victims' testimonies, noting that “the analyzed testimonies meet the jurisprudential requirements of absence of spurious intent, corroborating elements of a peripheral nature, and persistence in incrimination”.

The sentence issued on appeal by the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community can still be appealed to the Supreme Court.