The Audience of Valencia has judged this morning an educator of a juvenile center in Valencia accused of abusing a 14-year-old girl, repeatedly, when he slept in a single room, away from the rest of the minors received .

The events occurred in late 2016 and early 2017 and, according to the victim's account, the defendant, who responds to the initials LRI, addressed her on different occasions. However, the victim has failed to specify dates or the number of abuses that could have occurred. As he has argued during his statement, the defendant massaged his head and legs and then left the room where she lay . Minutes later, when he thought he was asleep, he returned and masturbated with the hand of the teenager , who was then 14 years old, always according to the version of the child.

The girl said that she did not react to the abuse because she was in shock and that she did not report this situation before because she was afraid that no one would believe her. Subsequently, one of the police officers who carried out the intervention has stated that the child came to assure him that he was afraid to report the abuses because the defendant told them he knew "very influential people . " The defendant is a former husband of the Vice President of the Consell and Minister of Equality and Inclusive Policies, Monica Oltra, on whom the juvenile centers depend, although at the time of the complaint the couple no longer had any type of relationship. The educator began to work in 2010 and the vice president has assured that she learned of the complaint in summer 2017, after a year of the break with LRI who now sits on the bench.

The defendant, on the other hand, has denied the aforementioned abuses of the child, although he has admitted that he did a head massage because he was very nervous. He has also made a final allegation in which he has argued that children in a situation like that of the victim tend to misrepresent the facts and that the circumstances occurred, in their opinion, in a protected place, since the doors were open and communicated with the room where the rest of the minors were .

A fellow of the accused has remembered that the minor used to sleep in a single room when she arrived outside the hours established by the center (at dawn) and with symptoms of having used narcotic substances. In fact, he pushed it away so that it didn't bother the rest of the classmates.

Following the statements, the prosecutor has maintained the request for five years in prison for a crime of sexual abuse in addition to compensation of 6,000 euros to compensate the victim for the damages caused . The public prosecutor has upheld the accusation in the victim's account of facts, which he has considered consistent and without contradictions, and in the report of the forensic psychologist who concludes that his statement is feasible.

The defense of the defendant, meanwhile, has claimed freedom without charge by understanding that the account of the facts provided has entered into contradictions. The lawyer has indicated that there have been alterations in the facts reported by the victim and that only during his statement in the courtroom he has ensured that the defendant took him by the hand to masturbate with her while in the rest of the testimonies he mentioned that I played him.

She has also highlighted the testimony of the social educator who was following her since the girl's father entered prison. According to this worker, the first time she was aware of the alleged abuse was when the victim's boyfriend's father talked to her so she could stay at home and avoid any risk situation .

The educator asked him to report the facts, although the victim refused. Later, when she left him with her boyfriend, she introduced herself to a friend of her father and recounted the alleged abuse again. In this context, the educator has affirmed before the court that the victim assured her that when she denounced these facts she was able to feel protected, since she was unable to return to the center of minors to which she did not want to return.

The defense lawyer, moreover, has insisted that the facts reported would have occurred during a period in which the victim frequently escaped from the juvenile center and that he would have only agreed with the alleged aggressor for five days. The child had previously gone through a judicial measures center having been involved in some criminal act.

From the Department of Equality it has been clarified that as a matter it was prosecuted from the beginning "the Prosecutor's Office requested that the child be transferred from the center . " Therefore, "it was intended that a girl, at that time of 14 years, as far as possible away from the presence of the educator who allegedly committed the abuses."

The same sources of Equality, have described that the concessionaire company of the center of reception of minors located in the neighborhood of Campanar "also separated the accused worker as soon as he received the notification of the Office of the Children 's Prosecutor" . Specifically, "the educator was removed from his job for several months while an internal investigation was initiated" following the complaint of the child.

"The same protocol that was used for the other cases of abuse was applied", according to Equality, from which it has been certified that at all times "the security measures for the child were applied" when the case of the alleged abuses was made public sexual.

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