Joaquin Benitez , Spanish former gymnastics teacher accused of child abuse charges in a Catholic school in northern Spain, attends his trial at a court in Barcelona on March 25, 2019. He has been sentenced to 21 years in jail. – AFP pic, April 29, 2019.
A BARCELONA court today sentenced a former gym teacher at a Catholic school to over 20 years in jail for sexually assaulting students, in the latest abuse scandal rocking the church in Spain. Joaquin Benitez, who taught for nearly three decades at a Barcelona school run by the Marist community, a Roman Catholic order at the centre of a clerical abuse scandal in Chile, got a jail term of 21 years and nine months for assaulting four students.
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