SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Criminal Court Number 7 of Santa Cruz de La Palma has sentenced, by agreement of the parties, to six months in jail, for intrusion, a person who worked as a dentist, without the necessary academic qualification, between 2010 and 2020.
As the sentence explains, the intruder was aware “that he performed acts reserved for said professionals, such as oral examinations and manipulations, diagnosis and treatments.”
The College of Dentists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which has made the court ruling public, appeared as a personal accusation in this judicial process.
The sentence also condemns the accused to special disqualification for the right to passive suffrage, “whose compliance is suspended for two years, plus the payment of costs, including those accrued at the request of the private prosecution.”
The College of Dentists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife states, once again, that “this type of practices constituting a crime of dental intrusion are very serious, putting the health of patients at risk”.
The crime of intrusion is typified in the Penal Code, in article 403, which establishes that whoever performs acts of a profession without possessing the corresponding academic degree issued or recognized in Spain, in accordance with current legislation, will incur the penalty of a fine of twelve to twenty-four months.
In the case of this sentence, section 2b is applied, by which a prison sentence of six months to two years will be imposed, when the circumstance that the offender carries out the acts “in a place or establishment open to the public concur,” in which the provision of services specific to that profession will be announced “.
