This Monday, October 20, the Court of Loures ordered preventive detention for the psychologist suspected of the crimes of sexual abuse and pornography, in Alenquer, on a young underage girl, carried out for more than two years.
After attending the first judicial interrogation, the Criminal Investigation judge left the psychologist awaiting trial in preventive detention and prohibited from contacting the victim and all the teenagers he met at school and who attend the Instituto do Cérebro, a clinic in Alenquer where he worked, the court informed the Lusa news agency.
The coercive measures were decided taking into account that “the facts attributed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the defendant were strongly indicted, integrating the indicated criminal offenses of a sexual nature and, having concluded that there was a need to guard against the dangers (…), of continuation of the criminal activity, disturbance of the investigation and disturbance of public tranquility in the place where the facts occurred”.
According to the Judiciary Police (PJ), in 2021, when she was 16 years old, the victim went to a clinic in the Alenquer region for psychological support because she had developed depression and anxiety following sexual abuse suffered in childhood.
“The psychologist would take advantage of the special vulnerability of the minor, then aged 16, to, in his office, begin to perform sexual acts with her and exchange digital content of pornography and sexual abuse of children”, explained the PJ.
The crimes occurred “for more than two years”, between 2022 and the summer of this year, when “the psychologist also tried to entice the young woman into more abusive acts”.
Last August, the victim, now 18 years old, appealed to the PJ, which had already investigated her previous case.
The psychologist is suspected of several crimes of sexual abuse of a dependent or particularly vulnerable minor and pornography of minors, all aggravated.