"I simulated fainting, I wanted to take my life": they presume alleged abuse of minors in Jehovah's Witnesses

Second day of the trial against the man who faces 111 years in prison for sexually assaulting seven children

A young man, alleged victim of a man who faces 111 years in prison accused of sexually abusing seven minors who belonged to his same religious congregation - Jehovah's Witnesses - from Sagunt (Valencia), told a court on Tuesday the « fear ”and the“ shame ”he suffered for four years:“ He was very afraid. Sometimes I pretended to faint to leave me, I invented anything. I wanted to take my life.

This young man has declared after a screen at the Valencia Court in the trial that follows against a man accused of sexually assaulting and assaulting seven minors. The defendant defended himself on Monday and said he had done nothing and that everything was an "invention" of the children .

However, the alleged victim who has declared Tuesday has provided details, dates and places where the abuse allegedly took place. He explained that he suffered these attacks for four years, from 13 to 17 , both at home and in the defendant's, in the garage or on different trips to which both went together.

He has indicated that he knew the accused because he belonged to the same religious congregation as he and his parents and has indicated that he suffered the first abuse at age 13 on a trip to which he went with him with the consent of his parents. From that moment, on each trip or every time he agreed alone with the defendant, he asked to have sex or some sexual practice .

The young man has described, very affected, that the defendant also put pornographic films and that he brought intimacy gadgets and lubricants . On the one hand, on trips, he has claimed that they always slept together, in the same room, and there he abused him.

Also, he has narrated, he abused him at home when he was going to teach them because he was not advancing in school. «He gave me the lessons in my room, closed the door with a chair and when we finished, he lay on the bed and started. He came two or three times a week and always ended up with sex at the end, ”he said.

I sometimes told him no, I tried to step away and pretended to faint. I invented anything not to do it, ”he said. And if in the end the defendant did not achieve his end, "he got angry and punched the car or began to scratch his arms strongly," he described. «I told him once that I didn't like men and I didn't want to do that with him. But he didn't answer anything, ”he lamented.

I left it aside
In the end he stood up and one day, while they were in his room, he began to scream and ask him to leave. His mother entered and at that time he had no strength to explain what was happening. It was later, after having a partner and breaking up with her and seeing how the defendant continued to interact with minors, he said. Meanwhile, he said, he still agreed with him at home because he maintained a good relationship with his parents and had to see him. Then, he said, “there came a time when I didn't even want to remember it . I left it aside in my mind as if nothing.

The young man has indicated that he was not telling anyone what happened to him because he was "afraid" and "ashamed." «I only saw that he died or that I died . I wanted to take my life, ”he confessed.

For his part, the mother of this young man, who has also given a statement at the hearing, said that they trusted the defendant and that it was he who offered to give free classes to his son. When the child began to shout one day in the room, he explained that he entered and saw the defendant very red and his son insulting him. He has described the boy as "very quiet and always said he was tired or dizzy." "He was always sad, he did not leave almost his room while a child, at his age, had to be happy and not stop laughing," he lamented.


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