The Civil Guard has arrested a couple in the Madrid town of Colmenar Viejo for mistreating their eight minor children, who were “physically punished, malnourished and cornered in a room” of a “totally unhealthy” home, reports the Ministry of Interior.
The judicial investigation has confirmed “a serious situation of neglect” and domestic violence, allegedly carried out by the father who is a doctor in a Madrid hospital and who also mistreated the mother, who has been detained and with a restraining order regarding her husband, while the minors have entered a first reception center in the Community of Madrid.
The arrest took place on March 29 under the direction of the Investigating Court number 1 of this Madrid town, within the framework of an investigation by the Judicial Police Team, and the Duty Prosecutor, Guardian Agents participated in the entry and search of the home from the Local Police, Social Services, as well as agents from the Women’s Minor Team (EMUME) of the Madrid Command.
The investigation originated days before, after a complaint of alleged ill-treatment against a minor, beginning a detailed study of the family environment, the ministry indicated in a press release.
The first investigations revealed that the minors used to constantly miss class, being “excused for school absences by the father who works as a doctor in a Madrid hospital” and that he also mistreated the mother of the minors, a 44-year-old Spanish woman. , which in turn “also offered degrading treatment and neglect of his eight children.”
After obtaining the appropriate evidence, the head of the Court ordered the immediate entry and search of the home, which presented “a state of unsanitary conditions in all rooms except the office” of the father, while the hygienic and sanitary situation of bathrooms and Kitchen was “shocking”.
The eight minors lived badly in a room, they were prohibited from stepping on the living room and were punished by physical abuse or leaving them out in the open in the patio of the house, the note continues.
During the search, hospital uniforms (gowns, operating room suits), hospital supplies (gloves, masks, gauze, medicines) were found, whose origin could not be proven at first, so the man is being investigated for a crime of theft Parental rights of minors have been provisionally withdrawn from parents, those who have a restraining order and who have been admitted to a first reception center in the Community of Madrid.
