VATICAN CITY
The Province
By The Associated Press
November 10, 2012
VATICAN CITY – A Vatican court has convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the theft of confidential papal documents and given him a two-month suspended sentence.
Claudio Sciarpelletti, an Italian who is a computer program analyst in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, had testified earlier Saturday that he had played no role in helping to spirit out confidential documents in a scandal involving alleged corruption in the Vatican bureaucracy.
Pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted last month in a separate trial for the theft of the documents and is serving a 18-month prison sentence in Vatican City.
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