Overview
- The provincial court is holding a two-day hearing out of public view in Oviedo to protect the minors, with a verdict to be issued later.
- Charges include repeated psychological violence, deprivation of liberty and neglect, and prosecutors also request a contact ban and €15,000 per child.
- Defense lawyers argue the parents acted to prevent infections such as COVID and are seeking acquittal, while both defendants remain in pretrial detention since April 2025.
- Police report the boys, rescued on April 28, 2025, were not enrolled in school and were found undernourished in a home littered with waste and excrement.
- Asturias social services continue guardianship as the children receive intensive psychological and educational support, and they are not expected to testify.