Six former students of a performing arts school in Grenadedenounced their former teacher, a well-known actor in the city, for sexual crimes allegedly committed between 2004 and 2019. The complaint was filed on November 7 and Court of Instruction number 6 took charge of the case and opened a preliminary investigation, although at the moment the professor is only the accused, he has not been summoned as an investigator.
The complaint was filed by the newspaper El Salto digital and confirmed by Maria Martoslawyer at the firm Aránguez –which also bears the well-known case of Juana Rivas- and relates “non-consensual sexual relations”, situations of “carnal access” to the complainants and, in short, acts of various natures which he considers criminal and which, in certain cases, were committed with minors.
They would have occurred between 2004 and 2009. Until now, all the women did not have a relationship with each other and they decided to denounce by sharing their situation and realize they all experienced the same thing. Three of them were under 18 when they were involved in what they are denouncing today.
The lawyer assumes that, given that these are facts which, in some cases, date back twenty years, could have prescribed. “It’s something that depends on the legal characterization that the judge in charge of the case wants to give it. This qualification does not correspond to us, but we understand that these are crimes which have not been prescribed and which can therefore be tried.
It is also not clear whether, in this second case, it will be necessary to use the new legislation on sexual offenses or the one who reigned over the years in which the events occurred. The current one is more restrictive, so it is very likely that the legal maxim will be applied that, in case of doubt, the one that causes the least harm to the accused will be applied. That is to say the old one.
“Criminal acts always punishable”
Regardless, the lawyer insists that the facts are always punishable. The complaint says, for example, that one of the women was a student in theater and body language classes taught by this professor – as well as his girlfriend – between 2001 and 2007. When she met him, she was 14 years old and he was 23. .
“One day, coming home from class, I received the first message, the first of a long series that would arrive later. He said: ‘Have I noticed a hint of jealousy in your eyes? That would have been nice… Kisses (their goodbyes were always the same way, adjectival kisses, like confused kisses, eager kisses, hopeful kisses, hot kisses, kisses that can’t wait to give you see, etc.)
In the aforementioned digital El Salto other cases are detailed. “Marcos invented a game to kiss me and the students with the tongue. “We were all minors,” says one of the complainants. “One night he got into bed with me and masturbated me. My classmates slept next door and were minors,” says another.
All six agree in this same media on the fact that their method consisted of gaining their trust, by become your “confidant” to, from there, insinuate itself and finally take action. Sometimes, they say, the teacher recorded the sex they had.
ABC contacted, by email, the the teacher reported to collect their statements. He responded by referring to his lawyer, who in turn declared that for the moment he would not do them (neither him nor his client) and that he was referring to the judicial evolution of the case for, the if necessary, do them. or not.
Before Andalusiaa political group made up of two deputies in the regional parliament, demanded that the accused professor, who is also director of the theater, be removed “immediately” from teaching, because the continuation of his position is “scandalous and scandalous”. He submitted a written request that, if there were any grants to this center, “they be immediately withdrawn” and also requested that the Women’s Institute “become involved in providing support to the victims.”
