Girona Court condemned 26 and a half years in prison To the drum teacher in the town of Girona quarter accused molested five students, most of whom were minors, Five other students also reported the abuse, but their actions were not included in the criminal procedure. prescriptions.
The sentence is considered to be proven by the story presented by the five victims during the trial: he managed to gain the trust of the young people (the majority of whom were between 13 and 16 years old when the abuse began), gave them gifts, told them that they had a gift They were specialand in some cases he was in love with them. Victims evolved emotional addiction the defendants too took advantage of his situation your teacher.
The abuse started with this massages on their backs and on their clothes, in some cases even wearing them masturbation or ask students to to touch he. In some cases there was touching influencessomething the court does not question. First, the defendant himself admitted to having sexual relations with four students (he denied one because he was not the legal age of consent, which was 13 at the time). Thus, the “conspiracy” theory is eliminated.
The court does not believe the defendant’s narrative, which it calls “a partially untrue and incomplete escape route” and adds that this was done “only to exonerate himself after seeing the full burden of proof of the accusation.”
Typical patterns of an abuser
According to the defendant, he never perceived the students to have consented to the touching and sexual practices, citing implied consent. However, the court emphasizes that his behavior responded to typical patterns of perpetrators of sexual abuse of minors, known in English as “groomers”. In this sense, it details various attitudes such as establishing a relationship of trust, seeing the victim’s limits, having more and more sexual contact, and sharing secrets. The decision stated that the defendant followed all the rules, but that they were not all unimportant and that “they were in the process of forming his personality.”
The teacher managed to catch the students by taking advantage of his teaching superiority.So much so that when he tried to abuse them, he allowed it if they set boundaries, but over time he persisted and got what he wanted.
The sentence, which has not yet been finalized, attaches great importance to the psychological examinations conducted on the victims and objectify their mental states.
Therefore, he is sentenced to 26 and a half years in prison and given five years’ probation for five counts of sexual abuse, four of which are penetration. But he concludes that he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. It also pays you 80,000 euros for compensation To the victims who suffered many psychological consequences as a result of the events. Instead, he was acquitted of three charges of exhibitionism and sexual provocation for showing pornographic material to students.