The Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has condemned 13 years in prison for a karate teacher for sexually abusing two underage students, compared to the 19 years requested by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The court considers as proven facts that the abuses occurred in two schools in San Juan de la Rambla and La Guanchawhere the accused gave karate classes.
He performed one of his victims touching under the clothes at the end of classeswhen she was lying on the floor stretching.
came to another to take off her clothes and lick her breasts and face and on one occasion he showed her videos with pornographic content and told her that he wanted to do the same with her.
These behaviors caused in the girls “great discomfort, nervousness and a feeling of humiliation”as stated in the sentence released this Thursday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).
Withdrawal of custody from parents
One of the victims suffered abuse for a prolonged period of time, which “included a large part of her childhood and all of her adolescence”, and also “in a context of defenselessness”, because her mother “did not believe her” or ” she felt intimidated by the pressure from the monitor” when she asked for an explanation after her daughter told her what had happened.
The girl reported that in the last episodes of abuse she came to self-harm.
The abuse ceased when custody of the girl was withdrawn from her parents and she was placed in the custody of the Canary Islands Government.
This girl must be compensated in 15,000 euros and he will be prohibited from approaching her for eight years after he has served his prison sentence.
The other must compensate her in 6,000 euros in view of the fact that the abuses to which she was subjected lasted for less time, since she dropped out of karate classes, and will not be able to approach her for six years.
The court gives credibility to the story of the two girls, corroborated by that of several witnesses, more than a dozen, who declared at trial to have also been victims of touching by the accused.
Regarding the showing to one of the victims of a video of a man massaging a naked woman, the Court indicates that there is no evidence that the accused did or ordered another person to do acts of objectively sexual content in the presence of the minor.
And he adds that if accusations had been made for other acts that violated the sexual indemnity of the victim, it would have been the accusation of a crime of a similar nature to the rest of the abuses committed that would be included in the criminal continuity.
