Curas abusaron de niños sordos en Argentina

ARGENTINA
El Nuevo Herald

[Several children and young people said that in a small chapel and before an image of the Virgin Mary they were abused by two Catholic priests. Their groans of terror could scarcely be heard: like them the other students of that Argentine school were deaf.

At least 24 students and alumni of the Antonio Próvolo Institute for deaf and hard of hearing children in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, denounced the alleged abuse to justice officials.

The case knocks at the gates of the Vatican, which ignored the warnings of the Italian victims about priest Nicola Corradi, detained in Mendoza. The Italian priest, 82, had been singled out for similar crimes committed since the 1950s at the Antonio Próvolo Institute in Verona.

After ordering an investigation into the allegations in Italy, the Vatican punished four priests, although Corradi was never punished for the crimes committed in that institute.

The scandal intensified after it became known that one of the appointed priests had already been charged with similar crimes at a school in Italy. Anne Barrett, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, an internet portal against clerical pederasty, said that the Argentine case “is distinctively horrifying … the crimes are new, they were preventable, they happened after the Vatican supposedly implemented reforms and under the noses Of Church officials who have boasted of clever anti-abuse policies. “]

Varios niños y jóvenes aseguraron que en una pequeña capilla y ante una imagen de la Virgen María fueron abusados por dos curas católicos. Sus gemidos de terror difícilmente podían ser escuchados: como ellos, los otros estudiantes de esa escuela argentina eran sordos.

Al menos 24 alumnos y ex alumnos del Instituto Antonio Próvolo para niños sordos y con problemas de audición de la provincia de Mendoza denunciaron los presuntos abusos ante la justicia. El escándalo se intensificó luego de saberse que uno de los sacerdotes señalados ya había sido acusado de delitos similares en una escuela en Italia.

En el instituto “hay una capillita chiquita donde está la Virgen… con unas sillitas, donde a los niños los confesaban, les daban la comunión. Allí sucedían algunos de los hechos”, dijo recientemente a The Associated Press el fiscal Fabrizio Sidoti, quien investigó el caso en las últimas semanas.

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