Pedro Florentino González Hernandez abused of 32 patients At the Goya 2 health center in Zaragoza. It was the first day of the trial to try to come to an agreement to avoid prison and not have to listen to the victims, but the two found themselves strong enough to move on and were unable to reach any agreement with the doctor. They reported this Tuesday touching moments during the interview at a time when access is unaccompanied due to the pandemic.
Later, someone who even tried to take his own life drew attention to this: It was caused by a pain in the back and this resulted in “rubbing” the breasts.. “My spine hurts and when someone asked me if I was doing a breast test, they told me to go to the stretcher,” he recalled from the prosecution and his lawyer Miguel Guillén.
“For the first time a breast recognitionI didn’t know how they were, but he justified me by asking if there was a history in the family,” the woman said, adding even though she had to hide behind a screen to protect her identity, a microphone with trembling hands on the table because she didn’t have one leg.
This victim of Doctor González Hernández added: “never had to look for a lump‘ and she felt ‘blocked’ by her ‘trusted’ doctor. We were alone in the room”. “Once he asked me for a test and called me to give the results and he told me:you are very hotyou did not receive any X’”.
“I spent six months without sleep”
Another victim, who broke her silence, told the judge of the 3rd High Criminal Court of Zaragoza that she came to seek help because her husband wanted a divorce and needed psychological treatment. “She saw me as sensitive and told me if I needed a hug,” said this woman, who claims Pedro Florentino González Hernández told her while touching her chest as she left the interview.Does he want you to get a divorce with all those beautiful boobs you need to have?“. A statement that hinders him and that he himself does not know how to get out of there, as he admits. To the questions of his lawyer, Alberto Peiró, whom he uttered while smoking a cigarette, despite his telling: “Your husband fucks you but he doesn’t fuck youTRUE?”.
At one point in her expression, this woman turned around, looked the doctor in the eye, and asked her to accept what she was doing. “She said you told me, she was honored to say it here, but she did it by looking at me.” She also criticized that “no one listens to her”. “I asked many people in the office for help and they ignored me, they didn’t believe me.they even called the local police when she was upset one day,” he complained.
While thanking the work of the pharmacist who encouraged the Family and Women’s Unit (UFAM) of the Aragon Police Station to report him for its investigative work to find and arrest all the victims, he said, “Doesn’t anyone listen to us women?” he asked himself. doctor.
This doctor was arrested in May last year after seven women went to the police station and disclosed their suffering. unnecessary touch even being treated with words like “dear”, “beautiful” to say “what beautiful nails you have” to one of them. The effect of said arrest was that a way of working on the party under investigation came to light. 32 women saw themselves as victims.
The prosecution initially offered a total prison sentence of 60 years, but the damage was repaired with the confession of Pedro Florentino González Hernández and the payment of some. 2,000 Euros per victim As highlighted by defense attorney Claudia Melguizo, it led to the change of sentence due to the sentence the judge would have to impose. With the amendment, the public ministry demands one year imprisonment for each of the 26 completed misconducts and half a year for each of the six attempts, except not to oppose the postponement of the sentence, that is, not to go to prison.
As a matter of fact, with the accusations of thirty women who claimed that they would demand a defense and accepted, the prosecution stipulated: sex education course 250 days of community service. In front of him are the lawyers of the victims, who made a statement this Tuesday and declared that they would oppose and demand a 3-year prison sentence.
At the end of the trial, the already retired doctor, apologize reassured the victims and that he was under psychological treatment.