The Supreme Court reduces to 2 years the sentence against the teacher accused of abusing a child at the Gaztelueta school

The

has lowered the sentence against

considering that

in the sentence handed down by the Hearing of Bizkaia in the

The ruling drawn up by the President of the Supreme Court, Manuel Marchena and endorsed unanimously by the rest of the Chamber, questions the decision made by the Biscayan judges by including among the criminal acts

having suffered the abuses without having made any mention when he appeared before psychologists and prosecutors.

The Supreme Court ruling will prevent José María Martínez, a teacher at the Gaztelueta de Leioa school, from going to jail despite the fact that he had been sentenced by the Provincial Court of Bizkaia to 11 years in prison on November 15, 2018. In that ruling, the The judges found that

.

The report of the complainant included five situations of abuse by who, in addition, was his tutor and who would have taken advantage of the meetings that both had in the office of 'Chema' in the school managed by Opus Dei.

Juan Cuatrecasas

, father of the attacked student and lawyer, publicly denounced the events after the unsatisfactory response of the

.

Martínez Sanz, defended by

, remained silent until the conviction was made public.

' after the first ruling in an open letter in which he assured that during the oral hearing "I listened to many people whom I did not know assuming my guilt, without presenting any evidence, beyond of the credibility they gave to the boy's testimony. "

Martinez Sanz appealed in cassation before the Supreme Court and the court warns in its ruling that

and that he did not count in the conversations he had with psychologists and prosecutors.

The court chaired by Marchena considers that these two alleged abuses are

and transfers to the Court of Bizkaia the responsibility of having accepted them as good.

"The evidentiary assessment does not reserve space for willful intuitions," says Marchena in the sentence that lowers the sentence against the teacher to the minimum.

In addition, it remembers that "voluntarism is incompatible with a constitutional canon of evidentiary valuation".

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