Murcia judge banned from office for more than two years for delaying lesbian adoption

Murcia judge banned from office for more than two years for delaying lesbian adoption
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By h.b. - Dec 23, 2008 - 12:28 PM

Fernando Ferrín Calamita - Archive Photo EFE

Family court judge Ferrín Calamita has been found guilty of delaying the adoption which had been applied for by the mother's lesbian partner.

The Murcia family judge, Fernando Ferrín Calamita, has been sentenced by the Murcia High Court of Justice, to two years, three months and a day out of office or from holding public employment for delaying the adoption of child by a lesbian women, who is partner to the child’s mother.

He was found guilty of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and will also have to pay 6,000 € compensation to the couple.

The prosecutor in the case had asked for an 18 year out of office sentence, but the court considered that the lower term was applicable as the judge could have carried out the crime though carelessness rather than maliciously. That despite the judge’s comments to the press that children adopted by homosexuals were ‘human guinea-pigs’.

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