Last Friday, a prisoner attacked an official at the A Lama Penitentiary Center, in Pontevedra, whom He tried to forcefully kiss her and even bit her lip. superior.
After the incident, The prisoner was transferred to the Teixeiro prison (A Coruña), according to union sources.
The prisoner has been left in temporary isolation and the incident has been brought to the attention of the Prosecutor’s Office, according to other prison sources, who emphasize that what happened on Friday was recorded in the prison system that differentiates between three types of attacks: sexual assault, sexual harassment and exhibitionism.
In a statement, the Acaip-UGT union has denounced that the attack was carried out by an inmate with a conflictive history and has generated a “deep indignation“, reopening the debate on protection measures in the prison environment.
This union points out that the “sexual assault” occurred when the officer was carrying out surveillance work in the second gallery of the A Lama prison, at which time the inmate MB “he surprised her on one of the stairs claiming that he had to give her a document.”
“When the official approached to read the paper, the inmate grabbed her by the neck, cornering her against the wall and trying to kiss her by force,” they add from this union.
Pursued by the intern
Despite the resistance of the official, Acaip-UGT regrets that the aggressor “he managed to get his tongue into her mouthwhile he pressed his body against hers, biting her upper lip and causing wounds.
In the midst of this violent act, the worker managed to free herself, but was chased by the internwho continued to verbally harass her, according to the union.
Acaip-UGT has regretted that what happened is not an isolated case, but “the reflection of a broader problem that affects prison workers”.
“Sexual assaults not only compromise the physical and emotional integrity of the victims, but also show lack of effective protection mechanisms in a particularly dangerous environment,” they denounced.