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Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-11:36

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The Barcelona Court has sentenced an osteopath to 42 years in prison for sexually abusing 23 patients whose private parts he touched without their consent, taking advantage of their trust, most of them during pre- and postpartum treatments.

In a ruling, to which Efe has had access, the eighth section of the Barcelona Court imposes on Sergi MP a sentence of 42 years in prison, compared to the 111 years requested by the prosecutor's office, for several crimes of sexual abuse with or without penetration, and also condemns him to pay

compensation to the victims

ranging between

1,000 and 5,000 euros

, as civil liability.

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  • Editor: GERMÁN GONZÁLEZ Barcelona

The Prosecutor's Office requests 111 years in prison for an osteopath for sexually abusing 23 patients

Basque Country.

Six women report sexual assaults by an osteopath in Tolosa

  • Editorial: EFE San Sebastián

Six women report sexual assaults by an osteopath in Tolosa

The court, in its ruling, considers it proven that this osteopath, who carried out his professional activity in Barcelona, ​​both

in a private clinic located on Ronda Sant Pere and at his home in Sant Cugat del Vallès

, where he had a consultation, "took carried out a series of actions whose sole purpose was to satisfy his sexual desires".

In this way, the court maintains, between the summer of 2013 and the end of 2016, Sergi MP "attacked the indemnity and sexual freedom of his patients" with a "lubricious mood", under an alleged "appearance of professional practice."

To commit these sexual abuses, the sentence says, the convicted osteopath took advantage of the "commissive facility provided by the

extraordinary trust that the patients had in him due to his profession and the reputation he had

both in the environments of natural childbirth and accompaniment to motherhood or breastfeeding.

With the "extraordinary trust" that the patients had placed in him, the man, a graduate in physiotherapy, performed touching that had no "relation" with the treatment requested by the victims, one of

whom he sexually abused during the seven visits. what he did.

According to the sentence, he touched one of the victims' breasts and vaginal lips and inserted his fingers into her vagina and anus; She performed clitoral massages on another of her patients; to another "he massaged" her breasts; He told a woman that "her pubis was out of place" and after asking her to take off her panties, "he inserted his fingers into her"... and so on to the 23 victims, who testified at the trial held last May behind closed doors, where they recounted the abuses to which they were subjected.

"The patients, even though they felt strange in the sessions..., tried to convince themselves that they were appropriate practices and justified this by finding themselves in a protected professional environment and in the presence of a professional who also had a good reputation," the court alleges.

The court notes that, as a result of these sexual abuses,

the women suffered "moral and psychological damage"

, as was proven by the expert evidence carried out during the oral hearing.

The Prosecutor's Office requested for this osteopath, who was

in preventive detention

for this case, 10 years in prison for a crime of continuous sexual abuse with penetration, 56 years in total for 7 crimes of sexual abuse with penetration, another 39 years in total for 13 crimes of sexual abuse and 6 years in total for 2 crimes of continuous sexual abuse.

Finally, the Barcelona Court has sentenced the estheopath, who no longer practices and who

retired as a member years ago

, to 42 years in prison: for a crime of continuous sexual abuse with penetration, to 7 years and 1 day in prison. prison; to another 16 years in prison for a crime of sexual abuse with penetration committed against 4 women; 6 years for a crime of continuous sexual abuse of 6 women, and 13 more years for 1 crime of sexual abuse of 13 victims.