SPAIN
Expatica
12th October 2015
The Vatican, citing lack of evidence, has closed a probe into a case of alleged sexual abuse of a boy at a Catholic school in Spain which had prompted intervention by Pope Francis, the school said Monday.
The Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo this month published a letter sent by the pope in December 2014 to the boy’s parents in which he said the Vatican was investigating the affair.
The couple filed a criminal complaint in 2013 for sexual assault and sexual abuse against a teacher at Gaztelueta school in Leioa, near the northern city of Bilbao.
The school is run by the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.
Their son, now an adult, said the abuse occurred in 2008 and 2009 when he was 12 and 13 years old, leaving him with emotional trauma.
The couple also sent a letter to the pope with documents they said backed their son’s accusations.
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