Chronology of mistreatment in a residence for the disabled in Malaga: "Dog, disgusting"

"There are also humiliating and degrading attitudes for users, verifying that sometimes they do not dry out after showering, leaving them naked in the air. On other occasions, the accused was dedicated to throwing what appears to be cologne at the face of the inmate in order to wake him up. "

This is one of the passages

against a group of workers at the La Milagrosa residence for the disabled who were arrested at the end of April 2008 for allegedly assaulting and seriously harassing the inmates.

A document in which the prosecutor in the case chronologically details the beatings, insults and disregard suffered by people with "serious disabilities and" totally dependent for the tasks of daily life. "Extremely vulnerable beings and incapable of" asking for help. "

The ordeal they were allegedly suffering was known in March 2018, after the center's management, suspecting that some of its workers were not fulfilling their obligations, decided to hire the services of some detectives.

On the 15th they installed "several video surveillance cameras in the two wings of the first floor, where the residents' bedrooms are located."

And soon they would become witnesses to what was happening.

"After a first viewing of the captured images," the detectives alerted those responsible for the residence, since they looked like "the accused, at night, and guided by the intention of undermining the physical integrity of the users of the residence, they were inflicted with degrading and humiliating treatment. "

This, according to the accusation brief, to which this newspaper has had access, and which was advanced by the newspaper Sur, consisted "of exercising slight physical violence on them, which did not cause injuries, and which

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"Sometimes leading to the assaulted users falling to the ground."

The prosecutor, which emphasizes the vulnerable situation of the victims, details along seven pages some of the alleged episodes of mistreatment that were recorded by the security system.

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"On March 23, 27, 28 and 31, as well as April 1, 2, 5 and 14, the defendant placed diapers on various users while they stood in the hallway. Subjecting them to a degrading and humiliating situation, because he had a place to carry out this activity privately, "says the Public Ministry, which adds that" on April 2, at around 8:10, another defendant lifted the inmates from the armchairs where they were sitting, roughly grabbing them by their clothing. and directing them, by pulling and pushing, to another area. "

The account of the alleged events worsens around two in the morning on April 6, when one of the employees, "finding himself neglected by his caregivers," defecated on the ground and got stained with feces.

"The next morning, after discovering what had happened, the defendant led him to the bathroom,

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Hits in the face

Three days later, the security cameras captured how, after 8:00 am, one of the workers "hits in the face" a user, who continues to denigrate [...] "feeding him in an aggressive and disrespectful way" .

Soon after, he allegedly assaults another user in the hallway in the face.

The woman "repeated this behavior on April 12, 14, 17 and 18."

"On April 13, around 7:36 am", another of those investigated "again hit a user in the face with a shoe, and minutes later

and caused him to hit the door of the room, "without helping him to get up."

The tapes show how, a day later, another of the employees allegedly chased one of the victims until he tripped against a screen and fell to the ground.

The defendant then began to give him "several kicks, knees, shoves and tugs on his clothes."

On the night of that April 14, at about 9:15 p.m., this same defendant, "without justifying cause," kicked a resident who was sitting in an armchair in the chest.

At the same time that this last attack occurred, although three days later, another investigated apparently struck a disabled person on the head who could not be identified and who was also resting.

, while jerking his clothes, "for minutes later, attacking another person who was kicked hard".

The Office of the Prosecutor reveals the numerous occasions in which the accused workers allegedly left inmates locked up, breaching the security protocol.

On one occasion, one of the accused

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"All this, knowing that he suffered from epilepsy, difficulty walking, with a high risk of falls and blows, hypertension, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary involvement", finding himself "unable to ask for help on his own."

The woman allegedly repeated such behavior on March 23, 27 and 28, as well as April 10, 11, 15, and 16, which would highlight a common practice.

The prosecutor in the case requests that seven of the 12 initially investigated sit on the bench, demanding sentences of five years in prison for six of them, to whom she imputes the continued crimes of degrading treatment, coercion and mistreatment of work.

Furthermore, it demands that restraining orders be imposed on the victims.

For the other defendant, she asks for a fine.

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