“What would you do if you knew that the person who raised your children hit and humiliated his own?”: the petition to reform the Children’s Law that is sweeping

«It is happening in a public institute in Zaragoza [el Instituto Goya]: the person who teaches morals and conduct to minors “He is sentenced to seven years in prison for physically and psychologically abusing his ex-partner and his three children.” The complaint is made Lucia Gutierrezin Tres Cantos (Madrid), “thinking that his son could be the next” whose learning depends on a teacher with a criminal record. He asks that Spain follow in the footsteps of the United Kingdom and the United States with a reform of the Children’s Law, the Lopivi. As soon as Lucía registers her petition on Change.org, as the platform tells ABC, more than 23,000 signatures are collected in a few hours and similar cases are reported in other centers, such as that of a Primary teacher from Baracaldo (Vizcaya ). She asks: “What would you do if you know that the person raising your children pushed their children on many occasions, hit them, grabbed them by the neck, threatened, insulted and humiliated them?”

Lucía knows this well, because she is a friend and shared part of the “hell” experienced by Paloma Delgado. The woman who began to be mistreated ten days after her wedding and was for twelve years of marriage presents her case again to prevent these teachers from continuing to practice, although she claims that she did not want to turn the initiative into “a public hunt against her ex”. However, it is the visible face: “I want it to serve to put on the table that currently only those who have a record of crimes of a sexual nature are prevented from being a teacher, while it is legal for a person who beats his family for years to be the reference model for many students.

Paloma Delgado appeared two years ago in the Cortes of Aragon. He got a compromise but today nothing has changed

In fact, at the institute where the aggressor teaches this class, there has recently been a sit-in by students and parents in protest at transcending his past. «It is interim, every year it is in a center, and you end up knowing. But the authorities settle the issue by saying that it is legal,” says this primary care doctor in rural Huesca. Both mothers demand that article 57 of Organic Law 8/2021 be modified and the requirement for a negative certificate from the Central Registry of Sexual Offenders be expanded to anyone who has a conviction for family violence.

Visiting regime

The Provincial Court of Huesca convicted the ex-husband of this doctor for continued abuse, but calculated the sentences individually and allowed visitation to her three children, who were then 6, 9 and 11 years old. On the advice of a friend she He contributed 37 videos with 18 hours of humiliation to the trial. He got out of prison by commuting it to work for the community that he failed to comply with, a fine of 1,530 euros and a training program on gender violence. She began a long court battle (the firstborn is now of age) so that her ex-partner could not access that visitation regime. He has not asked to see his children again but he could. In September 2025, the suspension of parental rights expires, so the father could be reunited with the youngest.

This doctor believes that what she was promised two years ago when she appeared in the Cortes of Aragon and obtained unanimous support for her request from the Ombudsman, the Justice of Aragon (a similar figure at the regional level) and political parties has fallen. on deaf ears. This initiative It serves to make memory. Paloma also does it: «What I ask for social coherence: They want us to combat gender violence and at the same time let the violent people reintegrate by educating our young people. The first condition for someone to reintegrate is to express regret and my ex never did, nor did he ever apologize. «This has to change», emphasizes Lucía.