Quico Alsedo

Updated Friday, March 8, 2024-17:21

  • Events The president of Infancia Libre is arrested for kidnapping her son: "They lived like animals"

  • Stories The son kidnapped by María Sevilla, president of Infancia Libre, speaks: "I don't feel hate or resentment, but it's not fair that my mother gets away with it"

Two years in prison, in short, for the mother linked to

Infancia Libre

who kidnapped her daughter and kept her away from her father and out of school for a year and eight months, between October 2017 and May 2019, when the Police arrested her in La Cabrera, in the Sierra de Madrid, where he was hiding,

taking his daughter, then 11 years old, to a

pirate

school .

The Supreme Court has now confirmed, in a ruling to which EL MUNDO has had access, the conviction for the abduction of her own daughter of

Patricia González Arribas

, the second mother linked to the Infancia Libre association arrested by the Police in 2019, after

María Sevilla

, the president, was arrested a few weeks earlier on the

Cuenca

farm where she was hiding with her son, also torn from her surroundings, and from her father.

Sevilla was sentenced to two years and four months in prison, and was later pardoned by the Government in the previous legislature, when

Irene Montero

( Podemos ) held the Ministry of Equality.

Now comes the final sentence for

Patricia González

.

This second convict also went to the

Senate

in 2017, before a

Free Childhood

legation was summoned in

Congress by the

Podemos

parliamentary group

, to participate in some presentations by the Equality Commission, as

an organization specialized in intra-family sexual abuse

: both Sevilla and González denounced on several occasions that their former partners, the girls' parents, had sexually abused them.

Since the courts ruled out these abuses - and not only them:

Seville

even denounced the psychosocial teams -, these women, along with others, formed Infancia Libre, and with it they took their message to institutions such as the

Madrid Assembly

and the

Congress of Deputies

.

Podemos Granada

then also commissioned a report on domestic sexual violence from the organization, before both mothers disappeared with their children, ignoring the Family judges of their respective procedures, which asked them to facilitate the contact of the children with their parents.

González Arribas was arrested in May 2019 by the

Police Unit attached to the Plaza de Castilla Courts

, then directed by

Pedro Agudo

, and it emerged that her daughter, M., had been separated from her father for several years, with the excuse of that he sexually abused the girl.

The allegations were so implausible - in one of them the father himself was recording his daughter when, when she fell, she suffered one of the injuries that she claimed had been caused by him - that the courts quickly discarded them, although they were supported by AE-N ., a controversial psychiatrist who had been an advisor to the

Observatory against Gender Violence of the Rodríguez Zapatero Government

in

2010

.

The mother then fled and the father spent thousands of euros on detectives, for years, to try to locate her.

Only the public relevance of María Sevilla

's arrest

led the Police to finally arrest

González Arribas

in the Sierra - the head of the Unit, Agudo, himself participated in the surveillance - and then the sentences began, one after another. , until the confirmation of the Supreme Court, which even forces the convicted woman to pay the costs to the father, assisted in the lawsuit by the lawyer

Eduardo García Peña.

The sentence, which creates jurisprudence, is now executive, and González Arribas has the appeal of the Constitutional Court, and Europe.

Waiting, perhaps, for the possibility of a pardon, which he did benefit his former partner in the claim, María Sevilla.