The case for sexual assault opened in the Investigative Court number 7 of Barcelona against the religious nurse Amado from the Jesuïtes school on Casp Street has already accumulated six complaints, according to judicial sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO. The rest of the accusations against teachers at this center, which fell at the end of last spring on such relevant names of the institution as the priests Francesc Peris and Francesc Roma, have not managed to activate the judicial process due to the prescription that turned into a dead letter. the actions taken by their victims. Yes, the six complaints filed against Amado have succeeded.
The victims who incriminate the former head of the infirmary from the Casp school report crimes suffered between the years 2000, 2001 or 2002. The majority of former students were between 6 and 9 years old when they suffered them. Consequently, these complainants have gone to court in time to charge their alleged aggressor. Four of these women went to the prosecutor’s office to report. Three of them have already been ratified in the court investigating the case and the judge is waiting to summon the last complainant and several witnesses.
The stories of the six victims also, according to the sources consulted, describe very similar sexual assaults. And there is no possibility of agreement between them because many of those affected did not have contact with each other and belong to different school years. His statements allude to medical examinations. Amado, according to the former students, in the exercise of a health faculty that he did not possess, he was responsible for carrying them out. During these reviews, The accused even touched the girls and in some cases penetration occurred with fingers pretending that it was a routine examination.
Amado is currently 78 years old and, according to sources from the Casp school teaching staff, in recent months he has been undaunted by the judicial case opened against him for sexual assaults on his students and has denied the accusations before the judge. Amado is not a priest like Peris or Roma are, but he is a religious brother of the congregation. Clinging to his supposed medical experience and for more than three decades, he has had access to minors in a situation of extreme exposure without the various school managements having done anything to question whether or not he was safe, or appropriate. .
The cover-up
The judicial case opened in the Court of Instruction 8 of Barcelona against Amado will be the only opportunity that justice will have to question those responsible for this school about the sexual abuse committed by its teachers for decades. Peris, especially.
According to EL PERIÓDICO’s investigation, Peris, better known as ‘sex penis’ on the part of the students, he abused minors for more than forty years: the first complaint dates back to the 1960s and he was finally removed due to complaints from a family in 2005. He abused minors inside and outside of school. One of his victims, Enric Soler, for example, claims that he was sexually assaulted by Peris in the holiday home that the company rented. in the municipality of Viladrau (Osona) in the 1970s. As the person in charge of the mountain excursions and, specifically, the getaways to this farm, Peris took the students away from school and there, according to the complaints, he perpetrated the greatest abuses.
Although he also cornered minors in his office. Whistleblowers like Laurawhich refers to crimes committed in the mid-90s, explain how Peris, in charge of the title of ‘conciliar’ – a reference figure for students in spiritual matters, academic performance and liaison with families – cajoled the victims during supposed tutoring – which took place behind closed doors – with the sole purpose of touching them to get excited.
A way of proceeding – closed-door tutoring – that coincides with that of Father Roma, according to the three testimonies collected by EL PERIÓDICO, two of which also informed the Mossos although, as has happened with Peris’ complaints, due to the prescription their warnings have fallen on deaf ears.
There are more teachers with complaints in Casp than in Peris and Roma. In February 2016, coinciding with the outbreak of the Marist Case uncovered by this newspaper, two former students of the Kostka school –when this center for families without resources was still integrated into the Casp center– they also went to the Mossos to accuse Joan Pere GM and Josep Maria GP, lay teachers. These were also statute-barred complaints.
In the case of Peris, furthermore, it is worth remembering that he was sent to Bolivia in the school year of 1982 and 1983. There, as the newspaper El País reported and this newspaper has verified, he also seriously attacked the students of the Juan XXIII school in Cochabamba.
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Peris was not the only pedophile priest sent to Bolivia by the Jesuits. Father Lluís Tó, a teacher at the Sant Ignasi de Sarrià school and former director of the center, was also assigned to the Andean country after being convicted of sexually abusing a minor in 1992.
Sexual crimes committed in the center of Sant Ignasi were uncovered in 2019, with the complaint that the brothers Jordi and Oriol de la Mata made in the PERIÓDICO. During the weeks following the harsh testimony given by those from la Mata, this newspaper found more victims: a total of four teachers ended up being reported to the police. The four teachers –Tó, Sala, Roigé and Garí–, however, were spared the trial, again, covered by the prescription regime.