SANTIAGO (Dominican Republic).- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of this jurisdiction ordered preventive detention for 18 months and declared complex the process followed against a 43-year-old professor, who psychologically and sexually abused 11 students , ten of them minors, as well as a janitor and a teacher from an educational center in this province.
Once seized of the complaint, the Public Ministry collected sensitive information about the harassment, intimidation, threats and persecution that, taking advantage of his status as a teacher, the accused exercised on his underage students and adult victims.
On the stand, the trial prosecutor Yarili Toribio, accompanied by the Public Ministry Melania Batista, reported that the accused took advantage of any moment to intimidate his victims, who threatened to fail the subjects he taught “if they did not behave as he wanted.” .
The minor victims are between 14 and 17 years old, another of the students is 18 years old.
The accusatory file also states that the accused used obscene, rude and offensive language towards the victims, including the janitor and the teacher, affecting their morals and modesty.
Judge Estephanie Santiago imposed the deprivation of liberty for 18 months against the accused and ordered that evidence advances be made to minor victims, in a process that has been declared complex, due to the number of victims involved.
Considering the seriousness of the facts, the Public Ministry granted the process the legal qualification described in articles 309-1, 332, 333, 333-2, of the Dominican Penal Code, modified by Law 24-97, on Gender Violence and Intrafamily and Sexual Crimes, and article 396 literals, B and C, of Law 136-03, which creates the Code for the System and Protection of the Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents.
