Catholic sexual abuse cases in Latin America

The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Latin America is a significant part of the series of Catholic sex abuse cases.

Argentina

Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz

Allegations of sexual abuse on 47 young seminarists surfaced in 1994.[4]

Brazil

Diocese of Anápolis
Archdiocese of Penedo

Chile

Archdiocese of Santiago

José Andrés Aguirre Ovalle, aka "Cura Tato", was found guilty of nine sexual abuse charges by the highest court of this country. Aguirre was sentenced to 12 years in jail. At the beginning of this trial, the catholic church was sentenced to pay 50 millions in damages to the victims, but then this sentence was revoked by the supreme court. [8]

Mexico

Fr. Marcial Maciel (1920–2008) founded the Legion of Christ, a Catholic order of priests originating in Mexico. Nine former seminarians of his order accused Maciel of molestation.[9] One retracted his accusation, saying that it was a plot intended to discredit the Legion. Maciel maintained his innocence of the accusations. In early December 2004, a few months before Pope John Paul II's death, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who would replace him as Pope, becoming Benedict XVI) reopened a Vatican investigation into longstanding allegations against Maciel.[10]

Peru

In 2007, Daniel Bernardo Beltrán Murguía Ward, a 42-year-old Italian-Peruvian Consecrated Layman of the group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, was found by the Peruvian National Police in a hostel in Cercado de Lima with an 11-year-old boy, whom he was taking sexually explicit pictures of. The boy was initially lured by Murguía Ward and given Pokémon figures in exchange for photos of his intimate parts. When Murguía Ward was caught, he had paid the boy 20 Nuevo Soles ($7 USD) for his services in the hostel. The police have reported that pictures of two other boys were also found on Murguía Ward's camera and that the boy has claimed he received oral sex from Murguía Ward. These charges have been denied by the accused. Murguía Ward has since been removed from the group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae for his misconduct.[11][12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Father Grassi: the sentence will be announced today "Momento 24", June 10, 2009
  2. ↑ Argentine priest convicted of sexually abusing boy AP, June 10, 2009
  3. ↑ Argentine priest gets 15 years prison for sex abuse Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine. The Star Online, June 11th, 2009
  4. ↑ The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/extras/bishops_map2.htm. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Close to 2000 Brazilian Priests Caught in Sexual Misconduct Archived December 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Allen, John L. (2005). "Sex abuse in Brazil: abuser priest provides checklist for selecting victims". National Catholic Reporter.
  7. ↑
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ ReGAIN Website Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Pope-to-Be Reopened Mexican Sex Abuse Inquiry
  11. ↑ "Detienen a ingeniero de sistemas por tráfico de pornografía infantil". Peru 21 (in Spanish). 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Capturaron a pedófilo cuando fotografiaba a menor de 11 años". Diario La Republica (in Spanish). 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  13. ↑ "Capturan a pedófilo que era laico consagrado". Terra (in Spanish). 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-06-29. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
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