Two minors, students of a school Pamplonahave been sentenced to 60 hours of community benefits as perpetrators of a crime against moral integrity school bullying to another colleague. The sentence of the Juvenile Court of Navarre number one has also stated that for ten months they will be prohibited from communicating with the victim and will not be able to come within 300 meters of the minor or his home or school.
The ruling has declared the educational center as civilly liable and must assume the 90% of the compensation of 20,000 euros for moral damages. In the sentencing report, it has been described that the “vexatious and humiliating treatment, with repeated ridicule” began in the THAT and lasted for four courses until Baccalaureatewith episodes of physical attacks.
The ruling makes it clear that the educational center had “the duty of direct surveillance and control of minors during the time they are in the center linked to the development of educational work.” The victim requested a change of school mid-year, shortly after her family filed a complaint and after the administration’s refusal to expel the two harassing classmates. Therefore, the execution of the restraining order will not mean that the two convicted people have to leave the center.
According to the ruling, the treatment of the convicted persons intensely affected the complainant, who presented significant symptoms related to the reported events such as anxiety, depression, avoidant behaviorsfeelings of guilt and a deficit of self-esteem and social competence with an emotional state of rage and anger.
The young man has also suffered a certain social isolation with loss of interest and lack of academic performance (with excuses for not going to school), which have caused a psychological alteration anxiousdepressive.
