Salvada / Beja: “Professor abuser” condenado a 18 years in prison.
José Jerónimo, the “Professor abuser” He was sentenced to 44 years and 3 months in prison, by sixteen crimes. Portuguese law provides for a maximum of 25 years in prison, but, the legal height was set by the Collective of Judges in 18 year old.
Professor of the School of EB1 Salvada, county Beja, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison for 14 crimes of child sexual abuse, a crime of pornography, a crime of mistreatment perpetrated against five students aged 9 and 12 year old.
Joseph Jerome was accused of 534 crimes of child sexual abuse, but the court only gave 14 as proven. No total, worth reached 44 years and 3 months, but accumulation of penalties was sentenced to 18 years in prison. The defendant was also disqualified from practicing the profession or any other public office during 15 year old, having yet to pay 53 thousand euros in compensation to victims.
The president of the Collective of Judges, Mariana Piçarra, said that the only time we spoke on trial the accused "apologized to the victims and families, but it does not absolve him of his conduct ", more so was the person responsible at the school for the education of children. The JN knows that the individual said "missed" what happened to him. "I became aware of the seriousness of the acts after the death of father, a home, when I was in custody ", justified.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), at the hearing of the PJ inspector responsible for investigating, one of the judges questioned why the "suspicious pointing the accused as the author of other abuses" in the ATL School Mario Beirão were not cleared, in Beja.
At the end of the reading of the judgment, defense lawyers and the prosecution and the victims' families, escusaram to testify.
Jerónimo José will wait in custody in Prison Beja, the final judgment of sentence, having input and left the court without hesitation and always open face.
alleged crimes (CI)/ sentenced crimes (CC)
I.P., 9 year old
CI: 87 (eighty-seven) crimes of sexual abuse of children.
CC: 3 (three) crimes of sexual abuse of children, successive tract- 3 years and 6 months in prison for each
1 (a) crime of sexual abuse of children- 2 years in prison
1 (a) crime of sexual abuse of children- 1 year and 6 months in prison
1 (a) sexual abuse of children aggravated crime- 4 years and 6 months in prison
arbitrated compensation: 5.000 euros
civil compensation: 20.000 euros
C.F., 9 year old
CI: 3 (three) crimes of sexual abuse of children.
CC: 3 (three) crimes of sexual abuse of children, successive tract- 3 years in prison for each
1 (a) sexual abuse of children aggravated crime- 4 years and 6 months in prison
civil compensation: 15.000 euros
M.L.S., 9 year old
CI: 375 (three hundred seventy-five) crimes of sexual abuse of children.
CC: 1 (a) crime of sexual abuse of children, successive tract- 1 year and 9 months in prison
civil compensation: 8.000 euros
L.P., 12 year old
CI: 69 (sixty nine) crimes of sexual abuse of children, in the person of another smaller.
CC: 3 (three) crimes of sexual abuse of children, successive tract- 2 years and 6 months in prison for each
M.R., 9 year old
CI: 1 (a) Smaller porn crime
1 (a) crime of abuse.
CC: 1 (a) Smaller porn crime- 1 year and 6 months
1 (a) crime of abuse- 2 years and 6 months
civil compensation: 5.000 euros
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
