• Courts: They ask for 7 years in prison for a former Barça physiotherapist for abusing another employee

The Barcelona Court has sentenced an FC Barcelona physiotherapist to four years in prison for sexually abusing a patient when he worked as coordinator of these masseurs for various

professional sections of the club, where he had been employed for 30 years

.

The ruling indicates that in December 2016 the convicted had his consultation at the Barça facilities at the Camp Nou and there he treated another employee of the institution referred by a doctor of the entity since he suffered a contracture in the neck.

The abuses were committed in the last of the therapeutic massage sessions that the convict did to alleviate the patient's discomfort.

According to the sentence, during this massage the physiotherapist lifted the victim's left leg causing pain in the groin, so he began "to work on it up to the vagina area, all without gloves and guided by a libidinal spirit, began touching "on her sex.

The court notes that the woman heard how the condemned man "spit saliva on her fingers when she carried out

this action "and then went on to caress her nipples. Then the convicted person asked" if he was okay, the complainant answered affirmatively all of this with the intention of putting an end to the situation and leaving the place. "

As a result of these abuses, the woman was off work for two months and the convict was fired shortly after the complaint was filed.

The court notes that the physiotherapist's massage using an intracavitary treatment is not adequate for the pains that the patient presented and that she did not sign any consent to receive it.

That is why she considers that she is responsible for a crime of sexual abuse and in addition to the four years in prison she orders her professional disqualification for two years.

In addition, it imposes an indemnity of 10,000 euros that the convicted person must pay to the victim, for the damages caused, and that the insurance company that Barça had as direct civil liability will respond to for this amount, and in the event that it cannot, the club in a subsidiary.

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