ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires Herald

Head of the Buenos Aires province Supreme Court Héctor Negri was received by Pope Francis less than three weeks ago at the Vatican. Today he rejected versions alluding he had discussed the legal situation of priest Julio César Grassi with the pontiff.

The provincial maximum tribunal ratified Grassi’s 15-year sentence for sexually abusing a boy at the “Happy Children Foundation” he was in charge of. “We have said in the ruling everything we had to say; whatever is said know and the subsequent consequences have nothing to do with the Court’s decision, this was no motive for our ruling,” the judge explained.

“A (Supreme) Court president travelling and asking someone else how he must rule would be something so horrible to do that honestly I don’t know the person who says so which justice criteria follows,” Negri insisted questioning the allegations that sparked after his…