One focus of the open case of the 15th Court of Valencia against Mónica Oltra, eleven officials from the Equality Department and two workers from the Niño Jesús children’s centre, a case of abuse of a minor, overseen by the monitor Luis Ramírez Icardi, ex-husband of the former vice president It is the ministry’s treatment of the victim. Apart from issuing a report that parallels the judicial process in which he was discredited, he was never treated as a victim – he was bottomed out when he was tried in handcuffs – and was not defended by the Attorney General’s Office. As an accusation despite being a minor under guardianship established by the Generalitat Child and Adolescent Rights and Guarantees Act 2018.
Oltra was questioned on these issues by both the investigating judge and the prosecutor on Monday, and the answer was clear: “If there is no regulation to support this, the legal profession will not act.” The former vice-president justified that the Law on Rights and Guarantees for Children and Adolescents came after the reported incidents and the moment of the incident. She became aware of them when her ex-husband told her over the phone on August 4, 2017. Because of these events, the supervisor was sentenced to five years in prison for an ongoing sexual misconduct charge (this sentence has yet to be finalized as it is on appeal at the Supreme Court).
The judge rejected this answer, with a case-law allowing the possibility that the Administration, which takes care of the interests of a minor under guardianship, may come up as a private prosecution while meeting the deadline. In fact, the magistrate recalled that the first case of her ex-husband and her supervisor was held in November 2019 after the law went into effect. “No one brought it up, neither did I,” Oltra said during the seven-hour interrogation.
Likewise, the former vice-president stated that Generalitat never appeared as an accusation in a minor’s abuse case, and therefore slapped his chest by saying, “We promoted the 26/2018 Act.” and Adolescents.
Another important issue in the case is the reason why the minor, who was the subject of interviews to assess the reliability of his testimony after the lawsuit was filed, allegedly suffered double victimization or was referred to the Espill Institute in August. 2017. but not in February, when the teenager first voiced the abuse. Oltra’s reiterated answer is that the technicians act “to their best knowledge and understanding” and “without interference,” as this paper argued just yesterday.
Actually, The former Minister assured that he was completely unaware of the steps taken by the technicians throughout the process.. And she said she had remained unaware of the case since her ex-husband told about it in August 2017, until early 2020, when the monitor had to explain the case in Courts after her first conviction in December 2019. “My will was not to interfere in any action,” he said.
Investigation Judge 15 was also interested in knowing if Oltra’s ex-husband was taken from the Niño Jesús children’s center between February 20 and March 12, 2017, after the minor first reported the abuse. The former vice president said, “This has been a very eventful month because I had to move out of Valencia and I was in Brussels and Madrid. He said they owe me days and I shouldn’t worry about the children he’s going to care for them”, because both had planned weeks to take care of the little ones. Instruction 15. During the interrogation, the Prosecutor asked the Generalitat to ask about the public agenda of the Vice President of the time at that time.
In February and March 2017, Oltra was still unaware of the minor’s former vice president’s complaint against the monitor and her ex-husband. Therefore, the judge was also concerned that who in the department should know whose husband had been fired, as many of those investigated denied having any record, Oltra said to this, “this is Management, I asked who had entered the operating room as if I were the Minister of Health.”