SANTIAGO (CHILE)
Associated Press via Yahoo News
February 9, 2018
The Marist Brothers in Chile opened a canonical investigation Friday into the sexual abuse accusations shaking their order with the first testimony from one of the alleged victims.
Isaac Givovich Contador testified for more than three hours to the Salesian priest in charge of the investigation, David Albornoz. When he left, a visibly affected Givovich was unable to talk to reporters at a news conference even though he was to speak on behalf of four other victims.
“What Isaac has just gone through in this place is part of a tremendously traumatic and re-victimizing process,” said Jose Andres Murillo, one of the victims of Chilean priest Fernando Karadima, the most visible face of sexual abuse in the South American country. Karadima’s case is not related to the Marists.
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