A 34-year-old priest from the Diocese of Malaga was detained by the Spanish National Police and is awaiting trial in pre-trial detention for sexually abusing at least five women, his friends, during group trips. The man injected the victims with a sedative and recorded the sexual assault. The situation repeated itself over several years on different trips.
“He took advantage of the fact that he was a priest to commit crimes,” said police sources quoted by the publication. El Pais.
A man detained before a mass on September 11 has been charged with four sexual assault and chemical weapons offenses and five privacy offences. But authorities have not ruled out the possibility of more casualties, especially in Malaga, Madrid and Cordoba.
The person who denounced the priest was his partner, with whom he lived in Melilla. The woman filed a complaint with authorities in July after she discovered a hard drive in her apartment containing photos and videos of the priest. engaged in “all types of sexual activity,” authorities said, according to El Pais.
A The Division of Family and Women’s Services was able to identify five victims who, when confronted with the crime, said they were unaware that they had been sexually assaulted and were unaware of the existence of the recordings. In a statement quoted by the Spanish newspaper, the National Police said the priest “provided the victims with a substance that would negate their state of consciousness necessary to commit sexual assaults.”