A music teacher, accused of committing sexual abuse against children between 4 and 5 years old in kindergarten 31 in the Melipal neighborhood of the city of Neuquén, must serve preventive detention for six months “due to the risk of flight,” judicial sources reported.
The man was arrested on Tuesday night amid incidents with the children’s parents both in the garden, which remains closed with police custody, and in the teacher’s home.
The judge of Guarantees, Carina Álvarez, accepted the accusations made to her on Wednesday night by the prosecutor Manuel Islas, who accused the teacher of “simple sexual abuse aggravated by being in charge of education” in 16 facts.
Islas maintained that “according to the provisional information, the events occurred in an estimated period between March and July of the current year during the dictation of the music class that he was in charge of, both in the morning and afternoon shifts.”
The man was arrested on Tuesday night amid incidents with the parents of the children both in the garden
In this context, he attributed 16 cases against boys and girls who attend Kindergarten 31 in Neuquén aged between 4 and 5 years.
The prosecution’s proposal was endorsed by the representative of the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents.
Meanwhile, the Provincial Council of Education (CPE) separated the teacher from his duties and preventively did the same with the director and deputy director of the garden until the facts are clarified.
He too The provincial government launched a device to accompany and provide support to the families of the children.
The authorities reported that “the device is headed by the Victim Assistance Center (CAV) which is making individual contact by telephone with all the families that are part of the educational community of the institution – not only with those who have filed the corresponding complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office”.
