MALTA
The Malta Independent
An appeal by the attorney general on the acquittal of a priest raping a boy, was rejected yesterday in the court of criminal appeal – Mr Justice David Scicluna confirmed the decision by Magistrate Saviour Demicoli clearing Godwin Scerri, who has since been defrocked.
The lower court had found that from the evidence produced, one of the charges against Scerri, that of violent rape, had not been committed in Marfa, as the charge sheet said, but at St Joseph Institute, so Scerri could not be found guilty of this charge.
The attorney general disagreed with the decision and said that in spite of everything, the rape had been committed, and the victim was aware of it, as was Scerri himself, who had defended himself against the charge. Once the rape had been committed, Scerri should be found guilty, the attorney general argued.
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