Press reports presented the case of a little girl who tired of being sexually harassed by one of her professors, garnered the support of a group of other girls who were affected by the same situation, and together denounced the professor, seminarist Marcelino Guaba to Father Ricardo Arias, director of the Emma Balaguer Vallejo school in Sabana Pérdida. The director of the school did not heed their complaint. The girls then took their case to the nuns of the school who took an interest in the girls complaint that the seminarist touched their private parts. Father Arias has defended the seminarist. Two of the girls that denounced the aspirant to priest were expelled from the school as Father Arias refused to let his professor go, according to a press report. The parents of the supposedly abused children, Nelson Esteban, Jose Joaquin Tejada, Adelaida Melgen de Estevez, Gregoria Rosado, Evangelina Sánchez and Altagracia Jiménez now have a legal case against the professor who was suspended by the Ministry of Education. The case is to be heard in the Segunda Cámara Civil y Comercial del Juzgado de Primera Instancia del Distrito Nacional, acting as a court of minors. Meanwhile, the court ordered that Professor Marcelino Guaba be arrested. The Ministry of Public Health ordered a psychotherapeutic evaluation be carried out of the girls by the Department for the Protection of Minors of the Ministry of Public Health.
