I write this text deeply disappointed, as a survivor of sexual harassment in a school setting, who broke the silence for the first time on November 27, 2024. I participated in the Ràdio 4 program L’Entrellat with Samanta Villar, where I was given a voice to share my testimony. Since then, I know it has helped improve the lives of many people. In that program, I spoke about events I had kept quiet for over 13 years, and I was able to do so thanks to the support of people who stood by me—many of them members of the research group CREA.
At that time, and up until now, June 30, 2025, I believed that journalist Villar had done that interview for me and to help other victims like me. I was very wrong.
On June 30, I learned that Samanta Villar had aligned herself with a campaign to defame the research center CREA and its members, echoing defamatory claims invented over 20 years ago by a child abuser. He fabricated these lies as retaliation for CREA supporting one of his victims when she broke the silence. Before she could tell her family, he preemptively made up those falsehoods to discredit her testimony.
There have been multiple campaigns echoing this abuser’s lies. This third wave of defamation began when certain ‘senior’ individuals—who are lying in this article—became angry because CREA launched a declaration to denounce inadequate treatment, protecting people like us, the research fellows.
In disbelief that she could be involved in such a campaign, I wrote to Samanta to make sure she had all this information, hoping she would reconsider. Clearly, she has chosen not to listen to the victims. This time, she wasn’t interested—perhaps because it didn’t serve what she appears to believe will be her professional success.
On the day of the interview, I believed she was doing it for me. Now I see she was doing it for herself. This shows that, when it suits her, she pretends to support victims—and when it doesn’t, she turns against them.
Unlike her, the people she is now attacking have always stood by our side, helping survivors like me to move forward. The Me Too Schools movement and I are committed to always defending every victim, and every person who stands up for victims.
Ane López de Aguileta