The prosecution sees a plan by Oltra to hide and discredit her ex's abuse of a minor: "A guideline is deduced"

"If there was so much interest in 'clarifying the facts', why were they not reported to the Police and the Prosecutor's Office?"

VALENCIA, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

"A superficial, internal investigation was carried out, in which a line of concealment of the facts is perceived circumstantially." This is one of the most repeated phrases by the Valencia Public Prosecutor's Office in the letter that it has sent to the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), in which it considers that this body is competent to instruct the case of the alleged cover-up of sexual abuse by the ex-husband of the Vice President of the Valencian Government and Ministry of Equality, Mónica Oltra, to a minor under guardianship.

In the 71-page text, to which Europa Press has had access, the Prosecutor's Office breaks down by periods of time how the events occurred and concludes that they could constitute prevarication; abandonment of minors; and omission of the duty to prosecute crimes.

After its analysis, the public ministry stresses: "In light of the proceedings, it could be argued that some official, technician, psychologist, etc., was wrong, but all of them? All of them were wrong? It follows, at the circumstantial level, that the existence of a guideline for action by all --authorities, officials and people involved-- to diminish the importance and hide the abuses".

Prosecutor's Office, asked what could be the purpose of all this, replied: "The direct beneficiary was Luis Eduardo, Oltra's ex-husband, hierarchical superior of the intervening officials and also beneficiary, of that way of proceeding, insofar as it benefited his husband hiding the abuse and her as a suitable means to avoid possible political and/or criminal responsibilities".

Thus --he continues--, "a will is deduced from the fact that, having initiated a judicial procedure and leaving the facts from the internal orbit of the Ministry --where they could no longer be 'controlled'-- it was decided to open a file to discredit the minor and exculpate the Ministry of Equality, thus benefiting the perpetrator of the events, Oltra and all those involved"

And he has asked himself again: "If there was so much interest in 'clarifying the facts', why were they not reported to the Police, the Prosecutor's Office and the Administration of Justice? Why did all the interveners - except at first Escriche (a social worker )-- denied credibility to the minor? Was everyone wrong? It is hardly credible, "he adds.

The Prosecutor's Office describes how the minor referred the abuse, on February 13, 2017, to a social worker and, from there, up to five more people were transferred without denouncing the facts: "We have, therefore, an incompatible and incomprehensible action with the seriousness of the facts," he says.

In this line, he adds: "The Generalitat Valenciana has the guardianship of a minor, it communicates through it that he is suffering sexual abuse, and not for a short time, by an educator in a Reception Center and not only are they not reported the facts, but they are also not brought to the attention of the Police, the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office or the Administration of Justice". In addition, the Public Ministry finds it "curious" that in the annotations and texts in which the educator is referred to, the surnames are not recorded, it is only indicated: "Luis R."

The events did not come out until four months later, when the minor was able to tell them to police officers. "Until then neither the Police, nor the Prosecutor's Office for Minors, nor the Administration of Justice knew anything. In view of everything exposed so far, in our opinion, it is necessary and unavoidable to question whether there was a real will to clarify these abuses" , reiterates the Prosecutor's Office.

"These behaviors show indications, of a considerable intensity, that again reveal the scarce, lazy or null will to proceed to clarify the facts," he insists.

Regarding the file that was opened in the Conselleria on August 8, 2017, when the facts were already being investigated in the Prosecutor's Office, the public ministry stops at the letter sent by the territorial director of the Conselleria in which it requests that "they open an informative file in order to ascertain, where appropriate, the veracity of the facts".

The Prosecutor's Office sees the purpose of the file as "especially significant": "There is an evident indication that the purpose of the file was not to clarify the possible errors that the people who exercised public functions related to the guardianship of the minor may have incurred, but rather to clarify the credibility of the minor's testimony, all of this when the facts were already being investigated in court since July 28, 2017," he says.

Thus, in his opinion, "such a file makes no sense, especially when almost six months had passed since the minor's statement about the abuse and proceedings were being carried out in court on those facts. Given the development and content of the file, indicative level, rather it seems that it was initiated with the aim of freeing the Generalitat Valenciana and the people and organizations that exercised or intervened in the guardianship of the minor from responsibilities, "he considers.

"Curiously," she asserts, "the case was concluded considering the instructor that the testimony of the adolescent was not credible. The two sentences of the Provincial Court and the two sentences given by the TSJCV considered the opposite, to such an extent that they condemned Luis Ramírez on all three occasions", he recalls.