2023-04-16 20:49:12
A Medicine student at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) has been sentenced to eight months in prison for going to review an exam and changing some answers that she had answered wrong on the day of the test. The judges of the Provincial Court of Madrid reject the defense arguments of the student, who alleged that she was the victim of a conspiracy within the university, and confirm her conviction for a crime of falsifying an official document, which includes a fine of 1,440 euros and that can be appealed before the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court confirms the conviction of the adviser who urged the falsification of the Cifuentes master’s degree
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The sentence to which elDiario.es has had access explains that the convicted student appeared in May 2019 for the “Anatomy III, sense organs and neuroanatomy” exam. Already then, one of the teachers, according to what she alleged in the trial, was forced to change places with several students because the defendant “was trying to copy” her answers. Some suspicions that also led the teacher to take a photo of her exam at the end of the test.
A day later, the student went for the review and the comparison between the photo of the original exam and the current one revealed that the student had changed several answers that she had answered wrong at first. She modified an answer on the pairs formed by an artery and a structure supplied by it, and another on the migrations of neuroblasts from the ventricular matrix to the cortical plate. In the first she added a new answer and in the second she changed a “false” to a “true”.
The case ended in a court in Madrid and the Provincial Court has just confirmed his sentence: eight months in prison for a crime of falsifying an official document, the same sentence of disqualification and a fine of 1,440 euros. The declaration of several professors and, above all, the photographs of the first version of the exam have been key for the magistrates of the 15th section to confirm last March the sentence imposed by a criminal court in Madrid.
The judges reject the main defense argument of this student: that she in no way changed her answers during the review and that everything responds to an “animosity” of several people from the Autonomous University towards her. According to her defense, the sentence reflects, the evidence showed an “animal aversion” towards her for having denounced in previous courses “the manipulation of the data of her grades”, there being a previous complaint from the UAM towards her and an open disciplinary file “with intention to expel her from the University. “It is not about mania but about enmities whose intention is to expel her,” she added, her appeal now rejected.
A “gross” manipulation
Among other things, the student pointed to irregularities regarding the photograph that the professor took of her exam: she claimed that these two answers were changed and manipulated after she had delivered it. That, the resource added, “cannot be ruled out given the enormous number of problems it has at the University and without knowing how it was kept from the previous afternoon and 9:30 a.m. the next day it was delivered.” The student, the defense claimed, lacked means and no one saw how she manipulated the exam. She has not shown any accusation, she claimed in her appeal, what importance it had to change those two answers to assume the risk.
The response of the Madrid Provincial Court is negative. All the witnesses, the sentence highlights, “provide a version that is completely incompatible with the one claimed by the appellant”, among them the professor of Anatomy who took the photo of the exam, another professor and the UAM Services Inspector. “There was falsification in the exam due to manipulation and modification of two questions on it,” settles the Court. In the second case, where an attempt was made to change an “F” to a “V” in a true or false question, the manipulation was “gross” according to the judges.
In recent years, few cases of falsification of grades have reached the Supreme Court, and no students have been convicted. in 2017 the criminal chamber confirmed seven years of disqualification for a professor at the University of Granada who a decade earlier had given a student an A in her Pedagogy course without her even taking the exam. In that case, he was convicted of prevarication, being acquitted of falsehood in a public document.
In the Master’s case of Cristina Cifuentes, the former president of the Community of Madrid was finally acquitted, but the Supreme Court did confirm two years in prison for the adviser María Teresa Feito for urging the falsification of her academic record at the Rey Juan Carlos University. The teacher who carried out the forgery, Cecilia Rosado, was also sentenced to one year in prison.
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