A MAN has turned himself in to police after allegedly stabbing his son’s speech therapist to death in Valencia, claiming the victim was abusing his child.
The incident occurred at around 5.15pm on the afternoon of 15 June in the Marchalenes neighbourhood of Valencia.
The 32-year-old speech therapist, known only as Vicente DC, was stabbed in the neck by the 24-year-old father who then fled to the nearby town of Burjassot with his son.
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About an hour later, the father turned himself in at a local police station and, with his hands stained with blood, admitted to killing the speech therapist.
Then, the victim’s body was later discovered with a 15cm knife found on the ground beside him.
The father told police that he stabbed the victim because he believed the speech therapist was sexually abusing his son during their sessions.
However, a number of parents of children who were also treated by the therapist have expressed scepticism over the father’s claims.
Parents told El Pais that they had never noticed anything ‘strange’ about the man’s behaviour.
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One mother, Mayte, told the paper: “I brought him when he was four, and now he’s six, and he’s done a good job with my son. He was nice, down-to-earth. A while ago, he told me he was going to marry his girlfriend.”
She added: “I asked my son if he did anything strange to him or touched him privately, and he said no.”
Another mother, whose eight-year-old daughter had been treated by the victim for several years, said she had never experienced any problems with the speech therapist.
She told El Pais that her daughter referred to the therapist as her ‘friend Vicente.’
The Guardia Civil are investigating the murder and the father’s claims about the speech therapist.
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