The priest ought to have entered jail in February, however didn’t The Court of Pontevedra has issued an order to find and arrest him The convicted man was a faith trainer on the Salesianos de Vigo college
The fourth part of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has issued a search and arrest warrant in opposition to Segundo Cousido Vieites, the priest and faith trainer on the Salesianos de Vigo college (Pontevedra) who was sentenced to 32 years and 5 months in jail for sexual abuse continued to 6 minors in 2019.
He needed to have entered jail this February to serve that imposed sentence. However, he has not achieved so and, when the time period expires, the court docket has issued an order for the State Security Forces and Corps to arrest him and instantly take him to jail.
The priest was sentenced for the abuses he dedicated throughout a camp that passed off in Cambados (Pontevedra), on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and, with respect to one of many minors, throughout a Champions League match in a youth affiliation that the varsity was answerable for. The minors had been 15 years outdated.
The conviction handed down in 2021 by the Provincial Court of Pontevedra was appealed earlier than the TSXG by the priest, however the Galician excessive court docket ratified the sentence in May 2022. However, in accordance with TSXG sources, the quite a few appeals filed by the convicted particular person have led to that the start of the execution of the judgment of the TSXG, which was not ultimate till the tip of October, be delayed.
Last week, the Pontevedra Court gave him a non-postponable interval of three days to go to jail. Something that hasn’t occurred.
He touched their genital organs
The court docket that judged him thought-about it confirmed that the priest carried out sexual acts on every of the minors, touching their genital organs, usually above their clothes, though, once in a while, additionally under. The condemned man approached them at evening, making the most of the truth that they had been sleeping, and once they realized it, a few of them would flip round, shut the sleeping bag or put a pillow between their legs.
The sentence states that the priest “took benefit of the state of affairs of superiority derived from his occupation” and of the friendship that united them and that went past that of teacher-student, to hold out these touchings.
The victims recounted within the trial that they had been “shocked” when it occurred to them, with out with the ability to react as a result of they may not consider that he did one thing like that to them. The sentence was forceful, stating that the minors “narrated firmly and in accordance with their age what occurred to them and what they noticed with respect to others.”
In addition to the jail sentence, the Court of Pontevedra had imposed the cost of compensation of 76,000 euros to all of the victims for the psychological harm produced.