Overview
- The TSXG on Friday rejected appeals and confirmed a Pontevedra physical‑education teacher’s conviction for touching a pupil’s genital area, upholding a two‑year prison term, seven years of inhabilitación for work with minors, five years of supervised release, and a €700 moral damages award.
- Reporting shows the pupil told his mother the same day and a classmate and experts from the Instituto de Medicina Legal de Galicia corroborated the account, leading the court to rule the contact was sexual and not accidental.
- The court noted the Pontevedra defendant is retired which reduces the immediate practical effect of the work‑related ban even though the custodial and supervision measures remain enforceable.
- The TSXG also ratified a nine‑year prison sentence and future expulsion for a man convicted of raping a woman in A Coruña and confirmed a four‑and‑a‑half‑year term for a Monforte resident convicted of assaulting and raping his mother’s caregiver.
- Spanish criminal practice combines prison with inhabilitación, supervised release and indemnities to protect victims and restrict access to minors, and these rulings show appellate courts will affirm trial findings when testimony, witnesses and forensic reports align.