Search results for Archdiocese of Arequipa, Peru
4 Accused in this Diocese
- Boletín, Arquidiócesis de Arequipa, 02.19.2021
- Arequipa | Sacerdote de la Diócesis de Puno recibe 13 años de cárcel por tocamientos indebidos, Radio Sol de los Andes, 08.12.2025
- Condenan a 13 años de cárcel a sacerdote por tocamientos indebidos, El Pueblo el Diario, 08.13.2025
- Arequipa: Defensa Pública del MINJUSDH logra sentencia condenatoria contra sacerdote por abuso sexual a menor, gob.pe, 06.03.2026
- Arequipa: Condenan a sacerdote por abuso sexual a menor de edad, Diario Correo, 06.04.2026
- Arequipa: Investigan a sacerdote por tocamientos indebidos a escolar, La República, 02.07.2017
- Arequipa: Sala ordena prisión de sacerdote acusado de manosear a un escolar, La República, 02.08.2017
- Arequipa: Sacerdote fue acusado de manosear a cinco menores hace 14 años, La República, 02.09.2017
- Santa Sede verá caso de cura acusado de tocamientos a niño en Arequipa, La República, 02.12.2017
- Inició juicio contra sacerdote acusado de hacer tocamientos a un escolar, Diario Correo, 08.22.2018
- Liberan a cura acusado de actos contra el pudor, Diario Correo, 10.12.2018
- Arequipa: Sacerdote está en la lista de los más buscados por la Policía, Perú 21, 08.23.2019
- ¿Se fugó sacerdote Julio Riaño?, VoltaireNet.org, 01.06.2003
- Resumen del caso y artículos de prensa sobre el cura Julio Roberto Riaño Cuida, Informe Guillén, 2012
- Reporte para SNAP de los Casos Publicados en la Prensa Sobre Abusos Sexuales Relígíosos en Peru, Años 2000 Al 2012, by Héctor Guillén Tamayo, presented at SNAP’s 2012 Annual Conference, Chicago IL, U.S
Fr. Carmelo Ignatius Camenzuli
Ordained for the Archdiocese of Arequipa, Peru. Worked as an extern priest in Baton Rouge, LA. On 5/18/2000 the Diocese of Baton Rouge received an allegation against Camenzuli of sexual abuse occurring in the early 1980s, while he was assigned to St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge. Camenzuli left the diocese in 1985 and died in 1998. He was included on the Baton Rouge diocese's list in 2019. Accused in a lawsuit(s) filed sometime between 6/2024 and 1/2026 sexual abuse occurring at St. Joseph the Worker in Pierre Part, LA.
P. Fredy Valdivia Velásquez
Diocese: Diocese of Puno, Peru
Peruvian. Returned to Peru after missionary work in Canada in 2021, settling in Arequipa, though he was a member of the Diocese of Puno. Assisted at churches in Cercado, reportedly without permission from Arequipa archbishop Javier Augusto Del Río Alba. Convicted in the first instance in August 2025 of acts of a sexual nature or lewd acts performed without consent involving a 17-year-old boy in December 2022 and 21-year-old man in 2021. Valdivia was sentenced to 13 years, two months, and six days in prison. He was also ordered to pay reparations - 4,000 soles to the boy and 4,300 soles to the young man. In June 2026, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MINJUSDH), through the Public Defender's Office, issued a news release reiterating the sentence, calling it precedent-setting, one of the few convictions obtained at the national level against a cleric for sex crimes. The sentence will become effective once it is ratified in the second instance.
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P. José Carranza Chavesta
Diocese: Archdiocese of Arequipa, Peru
Investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Church after an allegation that he inappropriately touched a 12-year-old boy in November 2016. Carranza was the boy's religion student at the Gran Unidad Escolar Mariano Melgar School in Arequipa. The boy told his father, who filed a formal complaint. Carranza admitted only to having tapped the boy on his shoulders several times. Archbishop Javier Del Río (Arequipa archbishop 2006 to present) suspended him from ministry and teaching. In February 2017 he was ordered to nine months of preventive detention pending the outcome of the case, and an arrest warrant was issued. Carranza went into hiding; in May 2018 he turned himself in. During the investigation, it came to light that in 2002 and 2003, Carranza had allegedly similarly molested five boys at the school while disciplining them. Carranza was said to have locked the boys in a restroom and proceeded to touch their genitals. Then-archbishop Luis Sánchez-Moreno (Arequipa archbishop from 1996 to November 2003) was given a formal document detailing the allegations, which had been drafted by another teacher at the school. Carranza was temporarily suspended. During the 2017 investigation, the complaint to the archdiocese about the alleged 2002-2003 crimes was found to have disappeared; the school reported having lost their records too. The 2016 case went to trial in August 2018. Carranza was acquitted in October 2018, the Court citing contradictions in the alleged victim's statements.
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P. Julio Roberto Riaño Cuida
Diocese: Archdiocese of Arequipa, Peru
Colombian. Assigned to El Buen Pastor Church in the Samuel Pastor District (La Pampa), Camaná Province, Arequipa. He also taught at La Candelaria School. In October 2002 a 17-year-old girl filed a complaint with the DEINPOL-SR-PNP office in Camaná that Riaño had engaged in sexual misconduct with her and that he fathered her child, whom he failed to support. The girl was one of his students. Riaño reportedly said that he and the girl had been in a "romantic relationship" since 1998, when she was age 13. A 14-year-old girl also filed a complaint of sexual abuse by the priest; her parents would not cooperate with the investigation. A warrant was issued for Riaño's arrest. Riaño also was reported to have been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl and forcing her to have an abortion after she became pregnant. The priest allegedly went into hiding at the Arequipa Cathedral under the protection of Archbishop Sánchez Moreno and was later rumored to have fled the country. Fellow teachers and the school's principal were also said to have protected Riaño.