He Superior Court of Justice of Castile and Leon overturned the fourteen-year prison sentence imposed on teacher from the Discalced Carmelite School of San Juan de la Cruz in Medina del Campo (Valladolid) AF who was tried for sexual assault on a minor inmate at the seminary of said school.
So the teacher, who already has aprevious conviction, 13 years, for similar facts involving another student from the same center, he was exonerated in the present case, according to information from the TSJCyL Press Office collected by Europa Press.
In its judgment in this case, the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJCyL, based in Burgos, upheld the appeal of the convicted person and annulled the previous judgment issued last March by the Fourth Criminal Chamber of the court of Valladolid who acquitted him of the crime of producing child pornography but, on the other hand, considered the paternity of the sexual assault crime and, in addition to 14 years in prison, he decreed a ban on working in contact with minors and a ban on approaching the victim.a distance of less than 500 meters or communicate with her, by any means, for 18 years, reports Ep.
The decision is now overturned I saw no reason to be incredulous. in the version proposed by the alleged victim, although the TSJ of Castilla y León does not share this statement after recalling that the complainant was found guilty of theft at the convicted person’s home, “of facts to which the minor pleaded guilty (with a conviction pronounced in accordance), as the latter stated during the trial in the present case that it was not expected that the accused would have reported him for such a theft, “This is what prompted him to report the facts pursued here.”
“False motives”
“Logic requires us to conclude that the complaint in question was justified probably for fallacious reasonswithout being able to share the assessment made by the sentence brought on appeal according to which he did not do it out of revenge but so that the accused would assume as he should the responsibility for the sexual assaults he committed.and take responsibility for the theft”adds the acquittal judgment among other compelling reasons to question the complainant’s version.
The teacher, during the oral hearing held behind closed doors,and declared innocent and was the victim of extortion by the 14-year-old student, who had threatened to incriminate him if he did not withdraw the complaint against him for stealing jewelry from his apartment.
The one who was a professor at San Juan de la Cruz in Medina He denied having sexual relations with the minor, with whom he had a very good friendship, and he reported that the student, taking advantage of the fact that he was on vacation, entered his apartment and stolen family jewels which were later found by police in a pawn shop.
After the corresponding complaint, the professor maintains that the author of the theft blackmailed him into withdrawing the same as a condition for not having gone to the police and accusing them of sexually assaulting him while he was enrolled between 2014 and 2019 at the San Juan de la Cruz, Carmelitas Descalzos school in Medina del Campo, where he remained for the first three years. at the boarding school in the seminary which the accused was in charge of.
