WORLD NEWS: Martiño Ramos, the Galician professor convicted of raping a minor, is extradited from Cuba to Spain after his escape
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The Galician professor Martiño Ramos Soto, detained in Cuba after escaping in an attempt to avoid serving a 13 and a half year prison sentence for continuously raping a minor, was finally extradited back to Spain this Wednesday after spending five months imprisoned on the island. Sources close to the process have informed Efe that Ramos Soto boarded a plane to Madrid this Wednesday afternoon after having voluntarily accepted his transfer to Spain to serve the prison sentence. for the sexual abuse of a minor student, through sadistic practices on at least 10 occasions, when the victim was between 12 and 16 years old. This 50-year-old teacher, a native of Ourense and a well-known political activist on the Galician left, was arrested in Havana last November, in compliance with a request from the Provincial Court of Ourense and after a complicated collaboration process between both countries, given that Spain does not have an extradition treaty with Cuba. As EL ESPAÑOL was able to confirm exclusively, Ramos lived in hiding in Havana for several months, where he used the name “Martín Soto” and worked as a photographer under a very different guise than the professor who spoke about feminism at public events. Ramos Soto left Spain before the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence after several years of judicial process, which could have allowed him to travel without activating alerts. On September 15, 2025, when the Civil Guard notified him of his entry into prison, Martiño could not be located: he had already escaped from the country. The change in appearance of Martiño Ramos. The Cuban Revolutionary Police arrested the Galician fugitive a few hours after EL ESPAÑOL revealed his whereabouts on the island. At the time of his arrest, he was one of the ten names sought by the Spanish justice system. Havana officially announced that Martiño was in custody, agreeing to process the Spanish request through judicial cooperation and reciprocity. Although five months have passed since then, due to several obstacles in the processing of the surrender by the Cuban authorities, the aggressor is already back in Spain to serve his sentence. Abuses and sadistic practicesThe convicted man worked as a music teacher at the school where the victim studied. He taught him from Early Childhood Education to sixth grade, for at least seven school years. According to the sentence, it was he who contacted the minor, when she was less than twelve years old, through Instagram, hiding his identity and real appearance. A “virtual relationship” began between the two in which the accused presented himself as emotional support for her, with the intention of helping her solve her problems. Afterwards, he asked her for naked photos, which the minor had sent him since she was 11 years old, without knowing who was really behind the profile. The minor insisted that he reveal her identity and, on March 17, 2021, he told her through the social network to go to the music classroom. It was then that the victim discovered that her interlocutor was actually her primary school music teacher. From that moment on, Ramos Soto managed to meet her on several occasions at school. In those encounters he began to have sexual relations with the minor, in which he gave her “slaps and whips as part of a sadistic practice.” Later, he managed to meet her outside the school on three other occasions, during which he continuously abused her, raping her on all of them. The last time he left her “naked and almost unconscious” in a mountain. According to the sentence, Ramos Soto “enjoyed causing harm.” The good and false image of Martiño At the educational center, the victim was made to doubt herself, they told her that it was her imagination and that it was better for her to leave the school “in case she committed suicide by jumping out of a window.” “We fully trust Martiño, we have known him for years and we trust his word,” the center’s management then stated. At the time she was 16 years old, she had to be admitted to Psychiatry on several occasions after trying to take her own life and weighing only 34kg, as this newspaper reported yesterday from sources close to the investigation. In addition to being a teacher of early childhood and primary education, Ramos Soto was affiliated with Izquierda Unida for much of his life and is a former militant of the extinct En Marea (a coalition of Podemos, Esquerda Unida and other forces of the nationalist left). Galician), and known in his city, Ourense, for teaching music classes and for his activism. Martiño Ramos Soto, along with Alberto Garzón, former leader of Izquierda Unida, at a work meeting in Orense. According to Europa Press, Yolanda Díaz, current minister of the Government of Spain, also attended. The Spanish. Martiño was considered a close man, committed to equality and the defense of human rights. He has a teenage daughter, the same age as the victim of his abuse. Last February, the Ministry of Education agreed to withdraw his status as a career civil servant in the teaching corps, in application of the final sentence that condemned him.
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