The ‘president’ of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, has been “dismayed” after the arrest of several minors in Crevillent (Alicante) for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl and has stated that he “hopes” that this is not “a consequence unwanted, another one, of the famous law of ‘only yes means yes'”.
This was stated by the head of the Consell to questions from the media – after inaugurating the Health Law Congress in Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia) – regarding the detention by the Civil Guard of eight minors for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl. The eight arrested, to whom this alleged sexual assault is attributed, are between 15 and 17 years old.
In this regard, Mazón has pointed out: “I hope that it is not a knock-on effect of everything we are seeing during all these last months, because we have seen how even the members of the Pack have had their sentences reduced, how rapists and abusers to the streets, how they are seeing their sentences reduced”.
“I hope that this is not an unexpected consequence, another one, of the famous ‘law of just yes’, because I think we have already suffered enough with the silence of those who approved that law, with the shame of looking back. down and to the other side those who approved that law and we have had enough social shame so that now we are beginning to find a possible knock-on effect. I hope that is not the case,” he insisted.
For the ‘president’, “what we have to choose is the difficult path, not that of prejudice and not that of the incumbent, which is the path of prevention, of reinforcing the State security forces and bodies and the hardening of the sorrows.”
Likewise, he has opted for “rigorous work and listening to judges and prosecutors and legal experts when they tell us how we have to do things instead of believing ourselves above the truth as has happened with the PSOE, with Compromís and with We can all this time.”
“We must work with rigor and seriousness and I hope that this is not an unintended consequence and a knock-on effect of the worst law against women that has been enacted in Spain,” he remarked.
Carlos Mazón has stressed that the current Consell is going to “introduce preventive policies in schools and review all attention to juvenile centers.”
The regional leader – who recalled that “the last legislature of Compromís, PSOE and Podemos ended with 13 defendants for allegedly covering up abuse of a minor in centers belonging to the Generalitat Valenciana, in centers for minors” – has pointed out that An audit of the children’s policy is being carried out. “I’m still afraid of what I might find after this time,” he said.
“Therefore, our policy has to be based on rigor, on understanding, on truth, on transparency and, in the educational case, on prevention. We will introduce prevention protocols, because to date there have not been any, and also of prevention, including psychologists who are already beginning to appear thanks to the government of change in public education in the Valencian Community”, he concluded.
