The Constitutional Court has granted protection to a university professor who suffered continuous sexual abuse by the dean of her faculty. The case led to the criminal conviction of the accused, Santiago Romero Granados, who was a professor of Physical Education.
The court rejects that filing a complaint two years after the attack is an undue delay, and that it should never have served as a mitigating circumstance to reduce the sentence from seven years and nine months to two years and eight months. The ruling, however, does not order the Seville Court to review the case, for reasons of legal certainty.