MALTA
Malta Independent
Defence lawyer Giannella de Marco said victims of priestly sexual abuse met and agreed on the case to try and get as much financial gain as possible from those who gave them so much during their upbringing.
Two priests were last August found guilty of sexually abusing minors under their care, and were jailed for six years and five years respectively.
Carmelo Pulis was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of abusing nine boys. Francesco sive Godwin Scerri was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment after the court found him guilty of sexually abusing two boys. He was cleared of raping one of the boys because the victim alleged the case had happened in Marfa, and later explained it had happened at St Joseph Home.
The two priests were defrocked last year following investigations the Vatican carried out.
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