Condemnation of the professor who committed sexual abuse at the Gaztelueta College in Leioa is reduced from eleven to two years
- Despite the fact that between 2009 and 2011 it has been proven that he committed continuous sexual abuse of minors, the Spanish Supreme Court has not taken into account two facts that aggravated the judgment of the National Court.
The Supreme Court has finally sentenced a former professor of Gaztelueta College of Opus Dei to two years in prison, accused of sexually abusing a minor between 2009 and 2011. The professor will not be able to approach the person attacked for four years and will be disqualified to run for the election during the period of the sanction.
Thus, the Supreme has reduced the ruling of the Provincial Court of Bizkaia by nine years in November 2018. In fact, he was sentenced to eleven years in prison for five sexual abuses committed in his office by Professor Opus Christi Opus. The Supreme, however, considers that: The Provincial Court of Bizkaia gave the victim an "excess of credibility", according to the same source. The judgment was based on the testimony given by the accusation experts.
The testimony of the experts gathered two facts that hardened the judgment. The 15-year-old victim, who suffered sexual abuse, recognized at age 19 that sexual assaults had been more serious than he had said before. According to the Supreme Court, there is no evidence that these assaults have actually occurred, and complying with expert testimony for the sentence that would lengthen the nine-year prison would violate the defendant's "presumption of innocence".
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