From ‘Trinity Case’ to ‘Damocles’: the Measure Against Sexual Assaults on Minors Under Guardianship that Did Not Work in Catalonia

The Generalitat de Cataluña faced a decade ago the biggest scandal of sexual violence that affected protected minors: the Trinity case. The investigation uncovered a network of international paedophilia that was born in Tortosa (Tarragona), with almost a hundred victims, among them seven young people under guardianship. The Department of Social Affairs then announced the creation of the figure of the delegate of protection against victimization:…