The Supreme Court buries Vox’s accusations against Irene Montero for defending sexual education in minors

The extreme right, hand in hand with various anti-vaccination associations, decided to take Montero before the Criminal Chamber for affirming, during a commission of the Congress of Deputies, that sexual education is “a right of boys and girls, regardless who their families are.” He also added that minors have the right to “know that no adult can touch their body if they do not want to, and that this is a form of violence, they have the right to love and have sexual relations with whoever they want, based on that yes, in the consent, and these are rights that are recognized and that you do not like.

Vox and other far-right groups manipulated her words to accuse Irene Montero of promoting the pedophile and decided to take the minister before the Supreme Court for crimes related to pedophilia but which, as judges have certified in recent months, does not even exist : incitement to corruption of minors. Together with Vox, these complaints and complaints were signed by the Liberum Association, which in recent years has initiated a multitude of legal actions against virus containment measures such as the COVID passport, masks or vaccination, or the Association Victims of Politicianswhich as explained on its website calls, among other things, to impose “absolute control” on immigration.

In an order of a few pages and with the support of the Prosecutor’s Office, Judge Andrés Palomo del Arco decided at the beginning of March to confirm the decision to reject the complaint, thus rejecting the last resort that Santiago Abascal’s party could present.

For example, Vox and Liberum argued that nothing proves that Montero only spoke of minors under 16 or 17 years of age, and the Supreme Court answers: “The expression that the appellants find criminal was in discussion about the need for parental authorization to interrupt the pregnancy and in the paragraph where it is registered, women or young people aged 16 and 17 are mentioned up to four times”. Irene Montero, therefore, did not even speak of minors of an age in which there is no legal sexual consent.

The appeal also put possible hate speech on the table, and the judges answered: “Nothing indicates about parliamentary inviolability, nor why we are dealing with hate speech.” Regarding the maneuver of inventing a crime to seek the imputation of the minister, the Supreme Court reminds them that they themselves acknowledge in their writings that the crime of corruption of minors cannot be committed to the degree of incitement.

The order of the Supreme Court, which this newspaper has been able to examine, cuts short the intention that Vox had expressed as a result of these statements: that Montero be charged and that the Judicial Police make a report on the press publications that reflected his words. “The words used are constitutive of a crime”, came to say the far-right leader Marta Castro. “It is corruption of minors and apology for pedophilia,” said the far-right deputy Carla Toscano on Twitter. The judges answered that in Montero’s words there was “no incitement” to pedophilia and that the publications they were using had “alarming headlines” and constituted a publication “biased and out of context of some of its manifestations.”