ARGENTINA
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AFP
May 21, 2018
Buenos Aires (AFP) – An Argentine court sentenced a Catholic priest to 25 years in jail on Monday for sexually abusing seven children over a period of years.
Justo Jose Ilarraz had initially been held under house arrest until the 25-year sentence was confirmed on appeal.
Ilarraz, 57, carried out the abuse at a diocesan school in the city of Parana, 600 kilometers (400 miles) north of Buenos Aires, where he was in charge of discipline and spiritual guidance.
Prosecutors said the victims, aged 13 and 14, were boarders at the seminary school and cut off from their families, whom they saw once a month.
The boys were sexually abused by Ilarraz at the seminary between 1985 and 1993, the prosecution said.
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