Pioneering stop in Bilbao for a case of harassment in a school. A school in the Basque capital will have to pay 40,000 euros to a family for the case of “harassment” suffered by their five-year-old daughter for six months. according to the sentence agreed by the Court of First Instance number 8 of Bilbao. The events take place in 2021 at the Nuestra Señora de Begoña charter school, where the victim was in 3rd grade. For six months, a six-year-old girl from a higher class subjected him to physical but also sexual assaults, which had terrible consequences for the young girl. The judgment considers that the school management did not do enough to prevent the harassment of which the young girl was a victim. Following these terrible events, the little girl lost her speech for a time due to the “shock” of the situation and also had to take anti-anxiety medication when she was just five years old. The psychiatrists who analyzed the girl’s condition confirmed in the report that they had not seen “a case of such seriousness in their professional life”, according to the family’s lawyer, Jorge Romero, “continuous, persistent and uninterrupted”, according to When ‘Telecinco’. explained, the older woman began pushing her down the stairs and also hitting her, pulling her hair or taking food from her. The judgment explains that on certain occasions, “he introduced markers into her vagina.” The sentence confirms that the harassment was “continuous, persistent and uninterrupted” between September 2021 and March 2022. Although the family ultimately chose to change schools for the young girl in an attempt to turn the page on the bad times, the truth is that three years later the little girl continues her psychiatric treatment. The family also alerted the center to what was happening and requested that their daughter be separated from her alleged attacker. During the trial, the center assured that it had taken measures in the matter, both with meetings with the two families and with the activation of an observation protocol. The sentence assumes, however, that “the protocols and measures to which the educational center was obliged were not activated.” Standard Related News No cyber attacker arrested in Fraga who harassed 19 victims in a year through social networks A. Cc. Non Squatters standard a house in Seville and the police arrest the owner for a non-existent rental contract Marina OrtizThe lawyer pointed out that although it is not the first time that a school has been condemned for a similar story, the compensation high level that was agreed, which has never happened before in a bullying case. Unfortunately, bullying continues to increase in Spain: it is estimated that one in four students has suffered from it on one occasion or another.
