PROSECUTORS are seeking a prison sentence for a Spanish Big Brother contestant who allegedly sexually assaulted a fellow contender on the show.
Dozens of companies have pulled their advertising from the show after Carlota Prado was controversially shown footage of the alleged sexual assault.
She was sent to the diary room to watch a video of Jose Maria Lopez Perez apparently trying to have sex with her after she had passed out from drinking.
The tape from the 2017 show, which was never broadcast but was leaked to the Spanish press last month, showed Carlota’s pleas for the video to be stopped falling on deaf ears.
Today it emerged state prosecutors in Madrid have submitted an indictment demanding Lopez Perez receives a two and a half year prison sentence if he is convicted of sexual abuse.
He has been charged but no trial date has yet been set.
Prosecutors also want the 2017 Spanish Big Brother contestant and the show producer’s Zeppelin TV to pay £5,000 in compensation.
In the case of the producer, the compensation demand relates to an alleged failure to show Carlota the images without psychological assistance.
The incident leading to the jail demand is said to have occurred on November 3 2017 after a boozy party in the Spanish Big Brother house in Guadalix de la Sierra north of Madrid.
Jose Maria Lopez Perez and Carlota Prado, who are not named in the indictment but have previously been named in connection with the alleged sexual assault, had begun a relationship on the show.
State prosecutors claim Carlota’s new boyfriend made movements with an “obvious sexual content” under the bedsheets after she downed at least four tequilas.
They accuse him of taking her clothes off and continuing to touch her up and making “highly sexual” movements despite her being in a state of unconsciousness.
Programme workers intervened when she pulled the sheets back in the early hours of the morning and they saw the state she was in. Hours later she was shown what happened.
Endemol Shine Group, the company that owns the rights to the Big Brother format, has already described the decision to inform Ms Prado of the alleged assault as a mistake.
It said in a recent statement: “With hindsight we regret that the conversation where Carlota was informed took place in the diary room environment.”
Jose Maria was expelled from the show and Ms Prado decided to return to the show five days later.
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