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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain · 2021

Spain: Valladolid priest's conviction for grooming and sexually abusing a minor parishioner confirmed on appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias parish, Valladolid

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a minor parishioner of the priest's own church, whose access to her arose from and was sustained through his pastoral role in her parish.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-05-03 · conviction, confirmed on appeal

    Audiencia Provincial de Valladolid (trial), Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León (appeal), Spain. A priest of the Nuestra Señora de las Angustias parish in Valladolid was convicted of cyber-harassment of a minor under sixteen and sexual abuse of a minor under sixteen, after he began sexually explicit WhatsApp conversations in December 2019 with a thirteen-year-old parishioner, continuing until she was sixteen. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and barred from approaching the victim within 500 metres. The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León confirmed the sentence on appeal; he served time and was released on parole after three-quarters of the sentence.

Appellate history

  1. 2021

    TSJ Castilla y León confirmed the Audiencia Provincial de Valladolid's conviction.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish priest's pastoral relationship with a minor parishioner, exploited via private messaging

Primary record

Sources

regional newspaper final disposition report El Español (Castilla y León): Confirmada la sentencia que condena a un cura de Valladolid a tres años de cárcel por abuso sexual y ciberacoso a una menor.

Report of the TSJ Castilla y León's confirmation of the sentence, the parish name, and the WhatsApp grooming timeline.

regional newspaper final disposition report El Diario (Castilla y León): La Justicia confirma la pena de tres años de cárcel a un cura de Valladolid por abusar y ciberacosar a una menor.

Corroborating report of the confirmed sentence.

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