The National Police is investigating whether the 39-year-old man arrested after running away with Vicky, the 14-year-old girl found with him in a chalet in El Espinar (Segovia) after leaving her home in Albacete last Saturday, used some type of submission chemistry to subdue her in the five days they spent together. This was reported to EL MUNDO by sources of the investigation, who also explain that the possibility is being considered that the man, a university professor at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), could have held her against her will hours after meeting her.
Police arrested him on Thursday after a frantic search that had begun five days earlier, hours after the teenager met him in Albacete with the intention of spending a few hours in Madrid and then returning home with her family.
Since the day of the arrest, the university professor has remained in the premises of the Segovia Police Station, waiting for the agents to bring him before the courts today. The man lives in Madrid, but has a family home in El Espinar, where he allegedly deceived the girl once they arrived by train at the Chamartín station.
According to the investigation, they had met through social media months before. The Security Forces work with the possibility of him posing as a minor to gain Vicky's trust. In that time, they had exchanged photos and set May 27 to meet. They would meet in Albacete and from there they would travel to Madrid to spend a few hours. The plan, indicate the same sources, was to return. The university professor traveled from Madrid to Albacete to meet her.
The idea, reveal the researchers consulted by this newspaper, consisted of getting to know each other and spending a few hours together in Madrid and having fun. When they saw each other, the girl verified that it was not the person she expected, but rather an adult. Then the teacher, according to her first inquiries, convinced her to continue with the trip with the promise that she had prepared a party for him with many friends in the capital. Vicky agreed.
Once in Madrid, according to the same sources, he could have tricked her into taking her by train to Segovia and, there, keeping her in the chalet against her will until she was released by the Police last Thursday morning. The Central Family and Women's Care Unit (Ufam) of the National Police joined the investigations upon noticing the depth of the facts and the potential danger that this man could pose to the integrity of the adolescent.
Since then this elite group has worked with the Albacete Judicial Police Brigade. Ufam is now investigating the relationship between the two and the circumstances of the five days in which the girl has been with him.
Vicky left her home in Albacete around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 27. She told her parents that she was going to a friend's house to do some work for the institute. The reality is that the man she had met online went to pick her up in the city. They met at the train station and headed to Madrid, to Chamartín. At 9:30 p.m., alarmed by Vicky's absence, her parents went to the police station to report her disappearance.
The security cameras captured them at the Madrid railway station and those videos were crucial to the investigation. He was wearing a mask to make it difficult to identify him. The cameras returned to locate them later in Segovia. The images and the route of the Unir teacher and the girl led the Ufam Central agents to the chalet where they were.
Once the arrest was made, the minor underwent an in-depth medical examination and the family was also offered psychological help. At the moment, Vicky has not been able to give a statement since she is in a state of shock. Regarding the possible chemical submission, the researchers have to wait for the results of the biological analyses. If that were the case, the agents are inclined to believe that the detainee had given Vicky some barbiturate with the intention of keeping her calm in the El Espinar chalet. Once the minor is fit, the agents will take her statement, but for now the girl remains at home with her family. They arrived in Albacete at dawn on Friday after her parents traveled to Madrid to meet her again.
Waiting for more crimes to be attributed to him as the investigations progress, the university professor was arrested for a crime of grooming, that is, harassment through social networks, the Internet or the telephone. These are crimes in which an adult contacts a minor to deceive him with intentions of a sexual nature. They also investigate whether the man has any kind of criminal record.
The profession of the arrested person, advanced by this newspaper, caused a great commotion at the International University of La Rioja, which sent a statement conditioning the continuity of the professor to the result of the investigations. «The International University of La Rioja expresses its condemnation of the serious acts that are allegedly attributed to one of our professors. Once the situation is clarified, we will take the appropriate measures," the university reported.
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