Xosé Xabier Ron Fernández (born 14 February 1969 in Lyon, France) is a Spanish teacher, politician, translator and child sex offender who served as a member of the Parliament of Galicia. In 2026 he was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old student and infecting her with syphilis.
Career Born in France to Galician emigrant parents, Ron returned to Galicia and earned a degree in Romance Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. From 2016 he worked as a French-language teacher at IES de Ames, and from September 2024 at IES Breamo in Pontedeume. He specialized in the poetry of the Romance troubadours, particularly the Galician-Portuguese songbook, which was the subject of his 2016 doctoral thesis, Fenomenoloxía do don na lírica románica das primeiras xeracións, supervised by Mercedes Brea López.
He was a member of the Communist Party of Galicia and served on its Central Committee; he was also a member of the executive committee of United Left, where he held the role of Secretary for Social Movements and regional coordinator in Santiago de Compostela. Involved in Galician emigrant advocacy, he was a member of the Galician Immigration Forum from its founding.
He was United Left's candidate for mayor of Santiago de Compostela in the 2007 and 2011 Galician municipal elections,"IU elixe a Xavier Ron candidato á Alcaldía de Compostela" , article in Xornal de Galicia, 10 October 2010. and headed the list for the Province of A Coruña in the 2008 Spanish general election. He was elected to the Parliament of Galicia in the 2012 Galician regional election as a member of Galician Left Alternative (AGE).
Xabier Ron was also politically linked to Yolanda Díaz, with whom he shared a parliamentary group in Galicia and years of collaboration within the left-wing coalition AGE."Condenado un excompañero de Yolanda Díaz en el Parlamento gallego por violar a una alumna suya y contagiarle la sífilis", Onda Cero, 1 July 2026."Nueve años de prisión para un excolaborador estrecho de Yolanda Díaz por abusar de una niña de 12 años durante meses", Libertad Digital, 1 July 2026.
Conviction Ron was arrested on 28 January 2025 and placed in pre-trial detention the following day at Teixeiro Prison on charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Court findings established that between July and November 2024, Ron, who at the time was her teacher, engaged in a series of encounters with a 12-year-old student that escalated into repeated sexual assaults involving sadomasochistic practices, in which he cast himself as "master" and the victim as his "slave," forcing her to wear a submissive collar; these assaults also resulted in the transmission of syphilis to the victim.
On 1 July 2026, following a plea agreement between the prosecution, private and popular accusations, and the defense, the Provincial Court of A Coruña sentenced Ron to nine and a half years in prison. He was also ordered to pay the victim's family €82,000 in compensation, barred from approaching or contacting the victim for nineteen and a half years, disqualified from working with minors for fifteen years, and made subject to ten years of supervised release following his sentence.
Works Os exilios que somos, a collection of photographs and poems co-authored with Irene Tomé (Alvarellos, 2020).Book entry on the publisher's website.
Translations Morte en Arán, by Tòni Escala (Hugin e Munin, 2019). Morrerei outro día, by Isabelle Alonso, co-translated with Isabel Soto (Hugin e Munin, 2020). Diario dunha sufraxista, by Nicole Cadène (Edicións Laiovento, 2024).
Essays En transición. Europa y los retos de la representatividad (Catarata, 2020)
References
External links Profile at the Parliament of Galicia "Prisión provisional para el exdiputado de AGE Xabier Ron tras una denuncia de agresión sexual a una menor", La Voz de Galicia, 30 January 2025.