A group of students from the Goya Institute of Zaragoza has decided to raise its voice and say “enough” to the impunity that seems to overwhelm cases of violence against women and children. The patio of the public center hosts this Tuesday a protest in the form of a sit-in against the continuity as a professor of the former councilor of the Popular Party of Huesca, Luis Antonio Irzo Buenosentenced to seven years in prison for the continued mistreatment of his wife and three children. The students wonder how someone who has exercised a such extreme violence against his own family can now teach them. The situation has revealed the cracks in a legal system that allows these types of sentences to not be an impediment to working with minors.
The case of Irzo Bueno is not exactly unknown. The former councilor for New Technologies and Development, in the 2011-2015 legislature, resigned and left the PP after his arrest in November 2016, when he was in the opposition. In 2019, the story of Paloma Delgadohis ex-wife, did not leave anyone indifferent. During an interview with Publicas well as in several reports, Delgado spoke about the years of abuse who suffered along with the three minors at the hands of her then husband.
Luis Antonio Irzo Bueno even broke “kicking” his children’s toys, hitting them and grabbing them “by the neck”
The court ruling described a string of attacks and humiliation creepy: Irzo Bueno insulted his wife, whom he pushed, shook, grabbed and hit, sometimes in front of the children. While the children, a boy and two girls, “were subjected to a climate of domination, belittling, insults and constant aggressionmaking them subject to acts of physical and verbal violence and intimidation constant, humiliating the three frequently.” That included “kicking his toys”hit them, grab them “by the neck or hair” and apply “punishments totally disproportionate to the slightest occasion.”
A suffering that did not end with the judicial resolution, since, despite having been convicted of four crimes of habitual abuse, the Provincial Court of Huesca gave the green light to the aggressor to resume contact with children. “My children do not understand why Justice forces them to see their abusive father,” Delgado lamented in 2021. His testimony, full of pain, was another reflection of the daily struggle faced by those who have been victims of sexist violence to rebuild their lives in a judicial system that, many times, puts the formality of the rules before their true protection.
Despite the seriousness of the events, the current legal framework allows Luis Antonio Irzo Bueno, after serving his sentence, has returned to the classrooms as a teacher. Yes ok He never went to jail because none of the four sentences exceeded two years in prison and he commuted them to 510 days of community work, which, in turn, he refused to comply with and was fined 1,530 euros.
They ask for disqualification for any type of violence
The Organic Law 8/2021for comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence, requires that professionals who work with minors present a Negative Certificate from the Central Registry of Sexual Offenders. However, this rule does not extend its restrictions to people convicted of other types of violence, such as family abuse, which leaves a legal loophole. The same one that is being questioned by the students, supported by the families, and that has been criticized so many times by the feminist movements.
Anonymous mother: “(The authorities) do not understand that this is not just about complying with the law, but about ethics and what example we give to our sons and daughters”
Fathers and mothers from IES Goya have tried to find answers, but they have come across authorities who only offer a wall of bureaucratic justifications. One of the mothers remembers in a conversation with this medium how when she went to the center’s management and the Educational Inspection of the Provincial Service to express her concern, the response was clear: the hiring is legal, since it is not required to verify criminal records for crimes. that are not of a sexual nature or human trafficking. “But They do not understand that this is not just about complying with the law, but about ethics and what example we give to our sons and daughters.“, she laments. This mother highlights the impact that the situation has had among the students, who feel highly uncomfortable due to the lack of coherence between what they are supposed to learn about the meaning of equality and the reality they observe in their own school. .
For its part, from the Goya Institute, the management wanted to make its position clear. “Public centers do not have the power to hire or fire teachers.“, they explain to Public. In his opinion, the responsibility falls on the Ministry of Education, which is the one who makes the hires and who evaluates whether a teacher meets the legal requirements to work. “Here people come and go, and we have no intervention in the process,” they point out, emphasizing that their role is “simply to comply with the guidelines established by the educational administration.” The management emphasizes that any complaint about the suitability of a teacher should be directed to the Educational Inspection.
The students see that the presence of Luis Antonio Irzo Bueno in the classrooms generates a feeling of lack of protection and normalization of abuse
The sit-in that will take place this Tuesday in the school courtyard will be a testimony of the rejection of the presence of an abuser in the educational environment and of the demand for a change in teacher hiring policies. The students, aware that they face a difficult battle – this very Monday they were scolded for posting posters of the call on the walls and columns – They now appeal to justice, not only legal, but moral. They see that Irzo Bueno’s presence in the classrooms generates a feeling of lack of protection and normalization of abuse.
That is why, also, from the blog Decent Teachers in Classrooms have promoted a petition and collection of signatures at the state level by which they demand that the law be modified to disqualify all people convicted of any type of violence, especially against women, children and in the family environment, from performing jobs in habitual contact with minors.
Public He has tried to contact the Aragonese Department of Education, but has not received a response.
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