The trial against a marriage of Cangas del Narcea Accused of two separate crimes of abandonment of family and serious disobedience for not allowing his two children, 15 and 11 years old, to attend his classes last academic year for fear of contracting the covid will be held on November 12.
The Criminal Court 2 of Oviedo will host the oral hearing against the parents for whom the Prosecutor requests two sentences of eleven months in jail. On March 17, the Public Prosecutor presented its brief of provisional conclusions in which it attributes persistent school absenteeism to both parents, alleging “inconsistent reasons” for this.
The Prosecutor’s Office reports that the parents insistently refused to allow their two children to attend their respective schools, where they were going to attend second year of ESO and fifth year of Primary, and where only the older than 15 years of age came to attend one day. class to take an exam.
The respective schools informed the parents, in successive requests, of the consequences of their persistent school absenteeism and of the activation of the corresponding protocol as indicated by the Ministry of Education, without changing their attitude.
No reasons
The fiscal Ministery it affects his writing in which the marriage alleged “incoherent reasons”, among which he cites that the limitations to contact and movement imposed by the health measures derived from the pandemic prevented, according to the parents, “a motor and neurological development necessary for the deployment of cognitive abilities vital for learning “.
Parents also considered that the imposed social distance generates “feelings of distrust towards others, devitalizes relationships, hinders empathy and the development of social skills, such as generosity, altruism, cooperation and helping others, among others. others “.
In addition, the marriage also warned that the continuous vision of people and colleagues with masks, who cannot be seen expressing gestures and emotions, essential for correct verbal and non-verbal communication, hinders it between colleagues and teachers, in addition to preventing fluid communication and enhancing individuality in the face of the community.
School without homologation
For the Prosecutor’s Office, there is no doubt that the defendants seriously breached the duties inherent to parental authority by enrolling their children in an American distance school, despite knowing that it is not approved in Spain, and therefore so much without any recognition, and knowing the unavoidable obligation to educate their children in a standardized center to provide them with comprehensive training.
On December 14, 2020, the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office required them again for the schooling of their children and warned them that their non-compliance could constitute a crime of family abandonment, as well as another of serious disobedience in case of neglect. the mandate to return children to their schools to continue their training.
However, the defendants did not change their position, which has led the Prosecutor’s Office to charge them with their alleged responsibility for a crime of abandonment of the family and another crime of serious disobedience.
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