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Spanish bishops admit there have been over 900 victims of child abuse since 1945
The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) has admitted that 927 minors were abused by church members between 1945 and 2022.
The institution has made available data...
Spain’s Civil Guard frees French woman held for two months by violent partner in Castellon hotel
THE CIVIL Guard has freed a woman who was held and violently assaulted by her partner for a two-month period in a hotel in...
While Spanish victims are forced to wait for justice, Portugal publishes report on abuses in the Catholic Church
A DEVASTATING report published this week has revealed that at least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members of the Catholic Church in Portugal...
Barcelona bus company opens probe after driver verbally abuses man in wheelchair
AN INTERNAL investigation has been opened after a Barcelona bus driver was caught on camera directing an expletive-filled rant toward a man in a...
Abuser monitors ex-girlfriend in Spain’s Valencia by planting GPS tracker in her car
A man refused to accept the end of a relationship and planted a GPS tracker in his ex-girlfriend's car to pop up unexpectedly to...
LONG READ: Will Spain’s sex industry simply go underground as new anti-prostitution laws come into force?
FORTY kilometres outside Madrid, figures of dancing girls adorning the front of the seedy dark brick Olimpo are designed to lure punters off the...
Cases of abuse against the elderly soar across Spain in wake of pandemic
CASES of abuse against the elderly have gone through the roof since the start of the pandemic in Spain.
Approximately 5000 instances of abuse were...
Probe by Spain’s Catholic Church into child sex abuse branded ‘near useless’ by prosecutor
SPAIN'S Proscutor’s Office has slammed an internal investigation by the Spanish Catholic Church into sex abuse allegations as ‘biased’ and ‘of little use’.
Spain’s Episcopal...
Woman from Spain’s Valencia endures 56 years of hell from abusive husband before barricading herself in room
A Valencia woman suffered 56 years of abuse from her husband and eventually resorted to barricading herself in a room.
Officers from Valencia's Policia Local...
Boys arrested in Spain’s Valencia after forcing girl to drink urine and posting social media video of degrading treatment
TWO boys aged 15 and 16 have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Valencia over the degrading treatment of a 14-year-old girl.
A video...
Serial paedophile who posed as teenager to groom kids on social media in Spain faces ‘1,000 year jail sentence’.
ONE of the most prolific sexual predators in Spain is facing a ‘thousand year’ prison sentence over the abuse of at least 98 children.
Prosecutors...
Benidorm child pornographer arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after Swiss police and Interpol tip-off
A Benidorm man who made and distributed child pornography has been arrested after Swiss police tipped off their Spanish counterparts.
The 30-year-old has been charged...
Anonymous tip-off brings down Murcia sex exploiters who abused 19 women that came to Spain
AN anonymous e-mail to a Policia Nacional anti-human trafficking website has led to the bringing down of a major Murcia criminal gang.
Police have arrested...
YouTube rapper among mass Madrid arrests of vice ring that abused underage girls in Spain
POLICE in Madrid have arrested 37 people over suspected involvement in a ring that targeted underage girls for sexual abuse, child prostitution and child...
‘Very jealous’ man locked up girlfriend before going to work in Pontevedra area of Spain
A man has been arrested for domestic violence after his girlfriend claimed she was locked up every time he went to work.
Police in the...
Woman saved from abusive partner in Spain’s Barcelona after using ‘secret’ help signal
A man has been arrested in Barcelona after his partner alerted authorities using a secret hand signal to indicate she was being abused.
The woman...
Gay couple threatened by teenage mob in Valencia days after city wins bid to host 2026 Gay Games in...
TWO teenagers have been arrested on hate crime charges after threatening two gay men in Valencia City.
The abuse happened on Sunday evening, just three...
Man who set fire to his ex-boyfriend’s house faces 20 year jail time as trial begins in Spain’s Sevilla
A MAN has gone on trial in Sevilla for allegedly setting fire to his ex-boyfriend’s house after months of abuse and threats.
Named publically only...
15 years jail time for gym coach who abused students in Spain’s Castellon
A FORMER gymnastics coach has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison for abusing his students.
Carlos Franch Calpe, a former Betxí...
Man, 86, holds girlfriend captive and rapes her over two days in Murcia area of Spain
AN 86-year-old Murcia region man has been arrested for kidnapping and raping his partner.
The Caravaca de la Cruz resident kept her tied to a...
EXCLUSIVE: British pensioner handcuffed to hospital bed and ‘abused’ in her final days, say expat family on Spain’s Costa...
AN ELDERLY expat was needlessly tied to her bed before enduring a ‘humiliating and agonising death’ in Torrevieja Hospital, her family claim.
Kathleen Marshall was...
‘MASS ABUSE’ as hidden cameras record hundreds of naked clients at a Costa Blanca beauty salon in Spain
A couple made over 500 hidden camera recordings of naked female clients being treated at their Alicante Province beauty salon.
Some of the customers at...
Paedo father repeatedly raped young daughter while on day release from prison on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A 48-YEAR-OLD man who sexually abused his daughter has been jailed for 11 years.
The assaults went on for seven years without the mother's knowledge...
Domestic abuse calls increase by more than 40% in Spain during the state of alarm, compared to same period...
CALLS to 016 in Spain have increased by more than 40% during the state of alarm, compared to the same period last year.
Pensioner murders her husband and then takes her own life in Madrid after he allegedly abused her
A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has stabbed her 68-year-old husband to death and then taken her own life at their home in Madrid.
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