Police analyse devices of speech therapist murdered in Valencia in search of child pornography
The National Police are investigating the mobile phones and computers of Vicent D. C., the 32-year-old speech therapist murdered in his clinic in Valencia. Parents and relatives rule out any indication of sexual abuse of minors.
Doubts about the motive for the crime: no evidence of paedophilia in the speech therapist murdered in Valencia
According to lasprovincias.es, investigators from the National Police maintain serious doubts about the veracity of the alleged sexual abuse that the person detained for killing the speech therapist's son claims to have witnessed at a clinic in Valencia last Monday afternoon. The confessed alleged murderer claims to have discovered the specialist in a suspicious attitude alongside his three-year-old son, who was without trousers or a nappy, which he says led him to commit the crime.
Forensic analysis of the victim's electronic devices—mobile telephone, computer and hard drives—in search of possible child pornography files constitutes one of the main lines of investigation to confirm or rule out the motive alleged by the detainee.
Two simultaneous searches at the clinic and the victim's home
Officers from the Homicide group and the specialist forensic police team carried out two thorough searches during the morning of Tuesday: one at the Speech Therapy and Psychology clinic on Calle Ingeniero La Cierva in Valencia, where the crime took place, and another at the victim's home. The objective was to locate objective evidence of the alleged paedophilic urges that the presumed murderer attributes to the deceased speech therapist.
During that inspection, officers also confirmed that the clinic has no video surveillance system that could have recorded the alleged assault inside the consultation room or at the entrance to the premises. The detainee had demanded that the specialist show him the security recordings after discovering him during therapy.
No previous convictions or indications in the victim's circle
Vicent D. C., aged 32, led a stable life. He had a girlfriend for three years, with whom he lived and with whom he intended to start a family. His relatives and people in his closest circle completely rule out any indication of sexual deviation. His mother, a retired teacher, occasionally substituted for him at the clinic when he was on leave, as happened approximately a year ago following a motorcycle accident. In addition to holding a degree in Speech Therapy and a Master's in Specialisation in Speech Therapy Intervention from the Universitat de València, the victim was simultaneously studying for a degree in Psychology.
There is no indication of any possible sexual abuse of minors prior to the incident described by the father of the child. The detainee, David G. S., aged 24 and with no previous convictions, turned himself in at the Burjassot police station at quarter past six in the evening on Monday, after leaving his son at his home in the Benimàmet district. He arrived with bloodstained hands and admitted to officers that he had killed the speech therapist with a fifteen-centimetre bandit knife, the weapon he was carrying when the crime took place and which was seized inside the clinic alongside the body.
Parents and families defend the specialist's impeccable conduct
lasprovincias.es has been able to speak with several parents whose children attend the clinic. All agree that the speech therapist never displayed strange behaviour with the minors and that the detainee's version does not match what they experienced during years of sessions.
A mother who takes her four-and-a-half-year-old son to the clinic for the past six months claims to have questioned the boy in different ways—directly and through games—to determine whether the speech therapist touched him or did anything out of the ordinary. The answer was negative in all cases. This mother also notes that from the waiting room "you can hear everything", since the separation between the two spaces is only a plasterboard wall.
Another point that does not fit for several users is the access to the premises: the door closes and to enter again you have to ring the bell. "If the man went out for a smoke I don't understand how he could get back in, either he left it open on purpose or Vicent opened it for him," says a mother who has been taking her son with autism problems to the specialist for years.
Sara started taking her son to the speech therapist in 2017, when the boy was seven years old. Over nine years, with sessions twice a week, she had no complaint against the professional. "I will always be grateful to him, with him my son learned to speak, to write and to whistle. I know he did nothing wrong," she says. Another long-standing user of the clinic asks for the deceased's name to be cleared: "You cannot destroy a person like this after death, it must be a mistake. They only have their murderer's version." And she adds: "Many children have passed through his hands in these ten years and nothing strange has ever been seen, his behaviour with them was impeccable."
This same woman started taking her son to the specialist on the recommendation of the school itself, which referred the speech therapist cases of children with difficulties and special needs. "How is no one going to notice in all this time if it were true that he abused children?", she asks, a scepticism that is shared by all those interviewed by the newspaper.
The National Police have not yet made any definitive decision on the investigation, which remains open pending the results of the forensic analysis of the electronic devices and other pieces of evidence that may corroborate or refute the detainee's version.
Source: Google News ES — Crime (es)