The National Police have arrested a 58-year-old man in a municipality in the province of Valencia as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of sexual assault on minors, after taking advantage of his status as a therapist teacher in an educational center to allegedly sexually assault two girls with developmental disorder.
According to a statement from the Police, the investigations began after the Family and Women's Care Unit (UFAM) learned that two girls with developmental difficulties could have been sexually assaulted by a teaching member of the educational center they attended. .
Apparently, the man would have taken advantage of his status as a therapist teacher to stay alone with them and touch them.
The investigators found out that the detainee, of Spanish origin, has his job in another town, although in recent years he had requested secondments, without any type of financial compensation, in schools where there would be minors with special needs and developmental disorders. with difficulty verbalizing what would be happening to them.
The agents confirmed that the suspect had had contact with at least 11 minors between the ages of 3 and 6, who had apparently shown a setback in their evolution, several of them even developing sexual behaviors that they did not have before, as well as panic at having any type of contact with the teacher.
They also found that the suspect stayed voluntarily for many days during extracurricular hours, "maintaining inappropriate behavior towards minors, encouraging physical closeness with them, and even giving them massages, when his task as a therapist teacher was to adapt and adapt the content of the classes so that students with developmental difficulties understood them," according to the Police note.
Once all this information was collected, the Police have arrested the man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of sexual assault on minors and he has already been brought to justice, where a restraining order has been issued against him with respect to the educational center and he has been removed. the passport.
