{"id":61240,"date":"2025-02-14T14:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61240"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:18:36","slug":"rubiales-trial-ends-verdict-expected-in-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/rubiales-trial-ends-verdict-expected-in-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubiales Trial Ends; Verdict Expected in Sexual Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The trial of former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has concluded, with a verdict expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales faces charges of sexual assault and coercion for forcibly kissing star forward Jenni Hermoso after Spain\u2019s 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup victory.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are seeking a 2.5-year prison sentence, arguing the kiss was non-consensual and followed by pressure on Hermoso to downplay the incident. Rubiales maintains it was mutual and denies wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal led to his resignation, sparking global debates on sexism in sports.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jose Manuel Fernandez-Prieto will deliver the ruling soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The trial of former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has concluded, with a verdict expected in the coming weeks. Rubiales faces charges of sexual assault and coercion for forcibly kissing star forward Jenni Hermoso after Spain\u2019s 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup victory. Prosecutors are seeking a 2.5-year prison sentence, arguing the kiss was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61242,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61240\/revisions\/61242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}