A nurse’s aide working at a residence in Llíria (Valencia) faces nine years in prison. constantly harassing a resident with a developed condition Alzheimer’s between 2015 and 2019. According to the prosecution, the defendant, who was tried this morning in the Fourth Division of the Valencia County Court, would have benefited from his victim’s cognitive decline.
Suspect exercised the right not to declare and refrained from making any statements about the serious accusations against him. His defense seeks his acquittal based on the low burden of proof against his client.
The victim, who died at the age of 60 in September 2021, could not be questioned during the investigation due to his advanced degenerative disease. In addition, the residents of the neighborhood who allegedly witnessed the abuses could not testify. in court or at trial. Of course, in his case, pre-constructed evidence was made and the Chamber read his statements.
These two indirect witnesses of the abuses described some events. One of them saw how the worker calmly entered the bathroom, and after closing the door, he heard groans. These two inmates warned the center staff about what had happened, even though neither of them showed the slightest interest in them. For this reason, the two companies operating the aforementioned residence in Llíria during the years of the events now faces 60,500 euros as secondary legal liabilityat the request of the prosecutor.
He was a residential worker who brought the facts to the attention of the authorities after ending his employment relationship in 2019. This The former worker stated that a prisoner told him that the accused had abused the resident. “He told me not to play the fool, as if more people already knew,” he recalled with Alzheimer’s.
This witness assures that, after the prisoner’s information, he argued with other workers to see if what he said was true, and none of them denied it. actually had a classmate who implied him to be quiet, The important thing is to collect at the end of the month.
Other workers at the residence denied that they knew this resident had been abused. None of them witnessed them, and the residents who told them what happened, They admit that they do not listen to them because they do not give credibility.
The forensic team of the Forensic Medicine Institute of Valencia, which evaluated the victim’s health, severe cognitive impairment speech was not understoodShe said she could not understand the questions asked of her and under no circumstances would she give any sexual consent. they actually appreciated it He was “a very manipulable person”.
Inside gynecological examination found no vaginal lesion, but a mismatch caught their attention as he sometimes smiled during the examination. As they stated, the victim had a sexual inhibition and socially inappropriate behavior due to his illness.
One of the deceased’s sons, who also testified as a witness, stated that no one from the residence told them, and they even tried to hide it. in residence the incident was said to have happened with another residentnot with a worker and they told them the problem was already resolved.
When the Civil Guard Judicial Police informed them that they were investigating their mother for alleged harassment by a worker, They immediately took him out of there. “He gained nine pounds in a week away from home,” said one of the sons.