The advance of the police in the investigation on various complaints of sexual aggression to the students of the Highlands El Endinar de Madrid, a Moralija. On March 6, Father Marcelino De Andrés, chaplain of the school, priest of Legionaries of Christ And the last personal secretary of the founder of the order and pedophile in the series, Marcial Maciel, was arrested and withdrawn from his position. The researchers try to find tests that complete the testimonies of the six minors, after the incorporation of a last complaint. Among these, there is that of the video surveillance cameras, which capture the priest accompanied by girls who head to a blind point from the patio described by some girls such as the place where “bad things” occurred.
The researchers were able to recover images of up to 18 school video surveillance cameras and focused on those that record the areas described by the complaints. In particular, there are six more interest devices. The agents focused on a fragment recorded on March 3 in which, in one of the afternoon, an adult is seen that corresponds to the physical description of Father Marcelino accompanied by three minors and all go to a part of the patio, indicated by those who are affected as the place of the facts and who is a blind point of the recordings. There are ten minutes.
In addition, the new testimonies provided by the parents who spoke to their children are added after complaints and investigations. One of the minors described his parents an “experiment” that Father Marcelino had made with several children in whom he moved an object, “like a thermometer” up to “Magical Droplets”.
The investigative group was also able to speak with a mother who took his children of the school in 2023, shortly after the arrival of the priest in the center, when an article was published in which a priest was said very close to Marcial Maciel had started working with minors. At that time, several parents expressed concern for the director of the Center, Jesús María Delgado, who was responsible for the decision to continue in his position. “I put my hand in the fire for him,” he told this mother.
Other parents reflect that they came to speak with the deputy director of the school for the same reason and that he told them that the priest had crossed “rigorous checks” to work with minors and that they assumed the risk that something could happen. Delgado resigned on Monday of his position assuming all the responsibility to have maintained De Andrés in his position despite the fears. The director is one of the witnesses called to testify in the coming months within the case education process.
Several families report that their daughters said they brought them to the chapel to give them “the bread of communion”. A mother says how her daughter tells her father Marcelino has made several gifts And that was “very good” with her, but how much he tries to question her more about the possible indications of abuse, the girl ends in the band and starts crying. In the history of the little ones there are many “I don’t remember, very common in the stories of minors and many references to” bad things “that the chaplain reported was presumably made.
To obtain some testimonies of the highest quality from minors, in these types of cases one of the Gesell cameras is generally made, special rooms to listen to the suspicious children of having undergone sexual attacks in which they are interviewed by psychologists who direct a questionnaire with the questions that the holidays want to ask and the investigating judge. All legal figures are found on the other side of a mirror, listening to the conversation, so the procedural guarantees are total. This method is used to make only one declaration to minors once throughout the process and therefore avoid constant revitalization.
The latest police report also reveals that Father Marcelino also worked at the School of Everest in Madrid, where he was The sister of director Delgado. A father of that center told the police that he managed to move the priest after complaining about his closeness to Maciel.
