https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spain’s deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias, leader of the Podemos party, announced on Monday that a new child protection law planned for Spain would be named after musician and campaigner James Rhodes. https://www.thelocal.es/20200211/spain-introduces-new-child-protection-law-named-after-british-pianist-james-rhodes Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:28:58 +0100 spain-introduces-new-child-protection-law-named-after-british-pianist-james-rhodes Spanish police said Wednesday they have arrested a man suspected of secretly recording videos of the underwear of over 500 women, some of them minors, on public transit and supermarkets. https://www.thelocal.es/20190821/man-arrested-on-madrid-metro-for-upskirting-over-500-women Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:51:22 +0200 man-arrested-on-madrid-metro-for-upskirting-over-500-women Police are probing the suicide of a 32-year-old mother of two in Spain after hundreds of colleagues saw an intimate video involving her. https://www.thelocal.es/20190529/police-investigate-suicide-of-woman-after-revenge-porn-sex-tape Wed, 29 May 2019 19:04:20 +0200 police-investigate-suicide-of-woman-after-revenge-porn-sex-tape Spain's Supreme Court has confirmed a jail sentence of more than 17 years for a priest who sexually abused two boys, one of whose parents consented. https://www.thelocal.es/20190411/spains-supreme-court-confirms-jail-for-priest-who-abused-boys Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:40:58 +0200 spains-supreme-court-confirms-jail-for-priest-who-abused-boys A former gym teacher at a Catholic school accused of sexually assaulting students went on trial Monday in Barcelona, as a growing trickle of abuse allegations shakes the Church in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20190325/catholic-school-sex-abuse-case-goes-to-trial-in-spain Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:41:02 +0100 catholic-school-sex-abuse-case-goes-to-trial-in-spain A trickle of accusations of sexual abuse against priests in schools and seminaries is starting to erode the wall of silence in Catholic Spain, whose Church representatives are set to attend a major Vatican meeting on child protection. https://www.thelocal.es/20190218/spanish-victims-of-sex-abuse-priests-speak-out Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:52:51 +0100 spanish-victims-of-sex-abuse-priests-speak-out At least 38 suspects have been arrested in an international police operation against a major network that distributed child pornography material via WhatsApp. https://www.thelocal.es/20170418/police-break-up-international-online-child-porn-network Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:18:32 +0200 police-break-up-international-online-child-porn-network Police in Spain said Saturday they were trying to identify children who had been forced to appear in pornographic videos after they arrested the country's "king of porn". https://www.thelocal.es/20160509/spanish-police-seek-child-victims-of-porn-king-abuser Mon, 09 May 2016 10:59:51 +0200 spanish-police-seek-child-victims-of-porn-king-abuser The Vatican has closed a probe into alleged sexual abuse of a boy at a school in northern Spain which had prompted intervention by Pope Francis, the school said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20151012/vatican-closes-probe-into-sex-abuse-at-spanish-school Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:58:48 +0200 vatican-closes-probe-into-sex-abuse-at-spanish-school A court has ruled that the archdiocese of Granada can be held civilly liable for the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage altar boy by several priests. https://www.thelocal.es/20150909/spanish-court-rules-archdiocese-liable-in-altar-boy-sexual-abuse-case Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:45:14 +0200 spanish-court-rules-archdiocese-liable-in-altar-boy-sexual-abuse-case Spain's bishops conference on Thursday defended the right of priests to maintain the secrecy of the confessional booth even in cases of serious crimes such as the sexual abuse of children. https://www.thelocal.es/20150227/priests-defend-secrecy-in-sex-abuse-confessions Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:30:44 +0100 priests-defend-secrecy-in-sex-abuse-confessions A Spanish court has dropped charges against 11 out of 12 suspects in a clerical sex abuse scandal because the crimes fall within the statute of limitations, court papers showed on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150216/court-drops-charges-against-11-out-of-12-suspects-in-priest-sex-abuse-case Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:12:00 +0100 court-drops-charges-against-11-out-of-12-suspects-in-priest-sex-abuse-case Updated: police on Monday arrested three priests and a teacher in Spain's Granada region as part of ongoing investigations into alleged child sexual abuse — the latest development in a case which has rocked Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20141124/four-priests-arrested-in-sex-abuse-scandal-granada-spain Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:15:00 +0100 four-priests-arrested-in-sex-abuse-scandal-granada-spain