A 41-year-old personal trainer was arrested on suspicion of sexual harassment against a student during a physical evaluation in Caldas Novas, Brazil.
“If you had said ‘no’, it wouldn’t have touched you. I thought you were responding. Fool me. Please do not tell anyone,” Fidelis wrote to the young woman, trying to dissuade her from filing a complaint.
In addition, the defense stressed that Fidelis has worked as a personal trainer for more than five years, serving more than 100 students, without ever receiving complaints from them.
Physical evaluation
The young woman explained to the police that she was wearing a bikini so they could take measurements and photographs, and noted that, when the trainer was taking her measurements, he began to caress her breasts under the bikini.
The suspect’s defense stated that “at no time was there any connotation of threat, coercion or shame, but simply an act of seeking clarification of the facts.”
Deputy Alex Miller mentioned that the woman had been following a training program with the man for 40 days. The police added that the suspect stated that he had checked the student’s body measurements without intending to take advantage of her sexually. arguing that it was all a misunderstanding.
Defense note
During this period he never received complaints from his students and, during the investigations, he will prove that the accusations are unfounded. In this context, the defense will seek throughout the process to demonstrate that the investigated person always acted with good faith and ethics, fulfilling the role entrusted to him by his students.
Regarding the conversations exchanged on the day of the alleged incident, it is clear from the content itself that at no time was there any connotation of threat, coercion or shame, but simply an act of seeking clarification of poorly understood facts.
The relationship between students and staff was friendly, which can also be seen in the messages sent and shared through social networks during the training by the student herself.
Lawyers Lucas Morais Souza and Arlen S. Oliveira clarify that the Civil Police sent the documentation and expert reports collected so far to the judiciary. At the time, the court in charge of the case, upon analyzing the documents, resolved the following:
“The accused appointed a defense attorney, presented proof of address, has a lawful occupation and has no final convictions.
Therefore, there are no reasons that justify the preventive decree, based on the authorizing assumptions (art. 312 of the CPP). In case, any statement that there are reasons to maintain the detention of the accused will be nothing more than a presumption of dangerousness, which violates the constitutional order, especially the principle of innocence, since the accused has not yet been tried. . “
Finally, we inform you that the information collected is embryonic and that any sentence at this time violates the principle of presumption of innocence. “The facts must be investigated under the scrutiny of a contradictory and broad defense before the courts.”
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