What did he do in a classroom that day? ESO’s third year between Spotless Marists Barcelona It was nothing new, but more serious. And it was also the thing that dived Paula inside mourning, which he can no longer hide at home. It was the 1999-2000 academic year. Classes were over, and at five in the afternoon, Paula was walking with her other students down one of the school corridors into the street, on her backpack. Passing through the door of an empty classroom, caught by arm and they put him in that classroom in the dark. “They were the kids in my class,” he recalls in one. Interview with NEWSPAPER, from the Prensa Ibérica group, set in a cafe in Barcelona more than twenty years later. this angular in a corner and it started to lie down. Also in your clothes. “Some They held my arms behind me so I couldn’t move and others touched me.“, Explain.
Paula doesn’t know how long it took group aggression. But he did remember that at one point, he looked up while being abused and could see a few of his friends. comrades from the classroom by the door: “they were laughing at me“.
heartbreak
The boys had to lay down their arms to rob him, so he took the opportunity to escape. natalieA classmate of Paula’s who was waiting for her at the end of the hallway to leave school together that day, and who doesn’t know why it took so long, clearly records her friend’s finally showing up. frightened eyes, running. Natalia accompanies Paula in an interview with this newspaper. And this confirms that Paula witnessed many of the things she described and that it happened exactly as she described it.
“I sat on the couch that afternoon and Mourn. I couldn’t stop,” continues Paula. Paula’s mother, who also agreed to attend the meeting with EL PERIÓDICO, says she found her daughter “with a grimace” on the couch. “What’s wrong with you?” told her everything: what happened that afternoon and what was he experiencing since the course started.
Change
“When I was 12 or 13, my body changed, from being a girl to a woman,” explains Paula, who isn’t one of the popular girls in the class but developed these curves before the others. She placed herself in the sight of the children in charge, she. “They followed me every day, every hour to touch me,” she says. “I had to do it run away from them even during class. I remember one day, I think it was in Math class, I had to escape by jumping from one desk to another. Y the teacher finally scolded me“.
“I said I jumped on tables because they wanted to touch me, and he said that was why. I provoked them. I had to sit and stay still as the four of them continued to touch me until class was over.” Perhaps this was the worst part of the abuse: The suffering had taken place in front of the school. teachers’ eyes and while some try to help him, others accomplices the harassment that the management stands in profile. “A Marist brother made me look into a recess from a railing. He said to me, ‘You can see everything from here,'” he recalls releasing him, claiming that they were persecuting him for his dress.
estrangement
Paula’s family went to school after a serious bend that broke the silence that had been harsh as she had lived with guilt until then. The teacher listened to them, and a few days later Paula’s mother was “embarrassed”, telling them that “even the boys’ parents didn’t see the situation as serious.”and even the school didn’t take kindly to revealing the truth“.
During Paula’s final academic year at Maristas, the management of La Inmaculada was a restraining order from those dealing with minors. “They weren’t allowed to come within a meter or so,” says Paula, who stopped being persecuted but realized that instead of being escorted it became a problem for the school.
Body
Paula tried to combat her bodily changes. loose-fitting t-shirts and loose-fitting sweaters. and even came with a bandage to hide your breasts. It didn’t work. He was persecuted at every recess and also during class, down to group aggression. “There’s a lot to talk about Then leaving abuses short-term. But they also leave them in the long run. They also affect the people around you. I suffered, my family suffered. And my partner suffered”, says Paula months later therapy started with a serious development eating disorder. “The psychologist looked into what might be causing this disorder and finally found what happened to the Maristas,” he explains. “I blamed my body for causing them to hurt me.”
This was the long-term sequel, which it gradually recovered. In the short term, it became “in a bad person”, confesses. A year later he left the Marists and entered an institute and was expelled after his bad behavior and hurting his classmates. “If I could, I would apologize for what I did to them,” she says. “I thought if this happened to me being good and bad, I would have avoided it,” he complains.
Edu Carratala this systemic psychotherapist and he is the one who cured Paula. “Relationship problems with self-image are common in people who have been sexually abused as a child,” she says. Considering these abuses “protective figures” that spoil them, “trauma reinforced”. “Victims go from believing the world is a dangerous place to believing that they deserve what they’re going through,” he says, if these guardians fail—which are the teachers at the school.
Paula, the false name of a woman who is now also a mother, had followed the EL PERIÓDICO investigation into the ‘Maristas case’, which revealed the sexual abuse suffered by more than a hundred students and exposed the sexual abuse of more than 100 students. 51 police officers filed a criminal complaint against 18 teachers. She contacted this newspaper because she wants to know if there are other cases of students like hers being sexually assaulted by her classmates in front of teachers who blame the victims.
Source: Informacion
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