Journalist Saül Gordillo admits to the second sexual assault of a worker to avoid jail.

BarcelonaJournalist Saül Gordillo admits that he sexually assaulted a female employee of the media outlet he directed, The Principal, on December 1, 2022. As has been advanced The Newspaper And as confirmed by ARA, the former director of Catalunya Ràdio and ACN accepts a year and a half in prison after reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution, which must now be ratified by the court. In this way, Gordillo avoids what would be the second trial for sexual assault of one of his employees: was sentenced to one year in prison for assaulting a 23-year-old subordinate that same night, after the company Christmas dinner held by the editors ofThe Principal and the after-party they held at the Sala Apolo in the city of Barcelona.

With this agreement, the journalist collaborator ofThe Punt Avui, The journalist, who had so far denied the accusations, claiming that the sexual relations had been consensual, admits to the assault he committed in the early hours of the morning inside his car, when he offered to take the young woman to her home in Badalona. Gordillo accompanied the employee, who was showing "obvious symptoms of being influenced by alcohol consumption," and, before arriving home, he sexually assaulted her without her consent. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the young woman was "unable to react" due to her state after drinking alcohol during a night out with her colleagues and also due to her ingestion of benzodiazepines.

The agreement between the parties establishes a suspended sentence, something that, if accepted by the judge, could allow Gordillo to avoid prison. However, to avoid jail, the journalist must not commit any crimes and must take a sex education course for four years.

The agreement reached by Gordillo's lawyer, Carles Monguilod, includes compensation of €30,000 for the second victim in the form of moral damages. The agreement also includes a two-year probation period, a two-year ban from working with minors, and a five-and-a-half-year restraining order against the victim. Initially, the prosecution had sought a four-year prison sentence for the former director of Catalunya Ràdio.