SPAIN
The Irish Times
Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid
Wed, Nov 4, 2015
A former missionary has denounced the Catholic religious order he belonged to for overseeing a system of “sexual slavery” in Kenya and he has taken his case to the Vatican.
He claims the Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle (MCSPA), founded in Spain in the 1990s, subjected members of its staff and locals to sexual and labour abuse, El País newspaper has reported.
“I have been the slave and sexual slave of a group of depraved individuals who were covered up by the hierarchy of the [Catholic] Church,” the 36-year-old man, who calls himself “Paulino”, told Pope Francis in a letter outlining his alleged abuse over a three-year period in Kenya.
“They told us that an active sex life is what God wants us to have and that he also wants us to be naked because he created us naked. Help me, Francis. Give my broken soul some relief. Don’t let other youngsters go through this hell.”
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