In Valencia, a high school teacher was sentenced to prison for hitting a student with a harpoon.

However, the victim’s family announced that they intend to appeal the sentence as the judge has not accepted the teacher’s disqualification request for two years. The family thinks the sentence shows that the teacher committed numerous irregularities on the day of the incident: he drove the youth out of the center during school hours, shot with an uninsured fishing rifle, drove the child to the health center instead of calling an ambulance and adopting him. asked the teenager to lie about what happened. The boy who changed school after the incident had to return to the same institute where his mother was also a teacher.

Announced by El Periódico de España in September, the events took place at 12 noon on October 7, 2020. The teacher came to the center where she teaches Physical Education lessons and teaches young students aged 14 and 15. He ordered his ESO class students to accompany them to the parking lot to teach them something. “After telling them he was fishing, he invited the students to go outside of the center to where his car was parked, to show them what he had caught,” the judge said.

“Once there,” the sentence continues, “he took it out of the trunk of the car, a “Cresi Sioux I 50 cm” rifle without a license or insuranceaccidentally shot himself, hitting the right groin of the 14-year-old boy in front of him, which he believed was not loaded. Because of these facts, the defendant sustained sustained injuries to the student’s right lower extremity in court, which required 2 staples to heal and caused 40 days of base damage, 5 moderate damage, and 1 point sequelae from light post. -traumatic stress. “.

unbearable abandonment

The document states, “Without any doubt, it has been proven that the accused was a physical education teacher at the Llopis Mari de Cullera institute and they taught in the courtyard during the events. (…) is fixed.”

The judge describes what happened as serious imprudence: “The defendant has committed an act with harmful consequences, and to prevent this, check that the gun is loaded, and do not get carried away by the confidence that it is not, and in no case raise the gun, because these two facts are at the core of all reckless behavior. On the basis of this, with the circumstances that he was a teacher who showed some of his underage students a dangerous instrument, so typically accept it. It can be said that we are faced with an “unbearable abandonment”. control measures appropriate to the particular moment and circumstances in which the unfortunate event occurs and, consequently, simultaneous imprudence must be classified as serious”.

The judge also confirms that after the incident he asked his students to lie about what he saw: “It is memorable that after the incident, asked minors not to tell the truth about what happened and until the truth of the misfortune was revealed, he did not publicly apologize for the events or talk to the parents to repair the damage,” thus confirming the version that the minor’s family had given to this newspaper. is a behavior.

they don’t disable it

The following sentence confirms the accumulation of irregularities committed by the official: “Since he left the center with the minors without any justifiable reason, he committed various irregularities; he left the students alone in the school but as it could not be proven. Asking another teacher to take responsibility for them; He took the injured child in his private vehicle by not following the current protocol. and explained; and finally asked minors to lie about what happened.

However, and despite the punishment, the family of the student is not satisfied with the punishment. In a phone call with this newspaper, the victim’s father explains that he has requested the teacher’s disqualification for two years. However, the judge rejected this request. He refuses to disqualify the teacher because he considers that “these behaviors are not related to the crime under prosecution, i.e., the harmful outcome produced was not due to a particular professional situation that allowed disqualification to be foreseen”. if the accused is teaching his duties as a physical education teacher or is reckless in developing it, there were no irregularities“.

“I don’t know what else is needed to disqualify a teacher who commits such irregularities. He took the children out of the streets outside of school hours. He pulled out an unsafe gun. He battered my son. He took them to the health center without calling the ambulance with a harpoon and without leaving the other students alone. He asked them to lie. He did not explain to his family.. We do not understand that he has not been disqualified for the position.“The student’s father, Jaume, tells us. That’s why he has already announced that he will appeal this sentence.

back to school

It also happens that the young man changed schools as a result of the events, but this year he returned to study at the same center where the events took place. The reason for his return was that his mother was also a teacher at the same institute. However, his return caused him to meet again with the teacher who had hit him with the harpoon, and he was reassigned to physical education teacher. “They changed his group so that he didn’t have the same teacher in the end, but it was because his mother wanted it,” concludes Jaume.

We spoke by phone with the IES Llopis Marí de Cullera training center from El Periódico de España, where the director of education declined to comment. We also contacted the Generalitat Valenciana’s Conselleria d’Educació. We tried to talk to them in August but when the course started in September they sent us to do it. So we did, but they said they wouldn’t talk while the case was going on. Now, with the sentence already posted, we have sent a written request to speak, but we did not get an answer.