this alleged victim ill-treatment by their parents, evangelical pastorsin Terrasa (Barcelona) in 2017 They said, “There is the devil in you”. When he confessed to them that he was gay when he was 18.
This Thursday, in the 9th section of the Barcelona Court, the case against evangelical priests, Strict followers of a branch of Evangelical Christianityin a cross-charge case where parents also accuse their son and partner of attacking them for the same facts.
only prosecution In March 2017, he blamed his parents for harassing and assaulting his son for being gay, seeking two years and four months for the father and a year and a half for his wife.When the defendants arranged to meet with the victim to return his passport after leaving home months ago.
The young man, who only answered the questions of the Prosecutor’s Office and his lawyer, due to his status as a victim and a defendant. if they discovered his homosexuality, they gave him some form of corporal punishment or “taken him somewhere”.
Days later, at a meeting at the institute where the victim was educated, young man admitted to his family that he is gay in the presence of workers from the training center.
The victim assured that her father had told her at the meeting: “The origin of the penis is in the vagina” and if he thinks again he can go home and his mother asks him out of frustration, “since when are you gay” And why hadn’t he said it before?
The victim explained that, between his confession of homosexuality and his aggression, his parents sometimes waited for him outside the institute with a “pretty frightening stance”. force him to come home she said her father had sent her a letter saying that what she did was not right, that it was “a sin”.
The victim claimed that on the day of the attack, his parents were upset that he had appeared with his wife at the time, so they refused to give him his identity document, which led to a fight with his mother that led to a fight. the person who has the documents.
explained it His father caught him and then the partner of the victim who was left behind decided to intervene to help him.so the evangelical pastor grabbed him by the neck and tried to punch him when his own son got in his way.
Employees of the education center where the interview took place stated that the father made homophobic comments against his son, even saying that his decision was “the death penalty” and that although they offered to mediate, the father gave a statement about his son. situation The parents never returned.
On your own behalf parents deny having any problems with their son Although it was a “shock” for them that he “changed his sexual orientation” and on the day of the attack the suspect went to the car to try to get his mother’s purse and was attacked because of his sexual orientation.
Responding only to their lawyers, the two parents denied in their stories that they had inflicted corporal punishment on their children, and that their only concern was to know, something the two priests’ daughters and the victim’s sister had also stated. how you live and how you live.
The second session of the trial will be held on November 28 and will continue with the testimony of several Mossos d’Esquadra agents, after which the case will be adjudicated.