CHILE
GlobalPost
Chile’s Roman Catholic Church said Friday it has defrocked a priest after finding him guilty of sexually abusing three minors.
A church tribunal found that Rene Benavides committed the abuse while serving as a priest in the city of Los Andes in the 1990s.
“The tribunal has imposed on the priest the perpetual punishment of expulsion from the clerical state, which is the maximum sanction available under church law,” the Chilean church said in a statement.
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