P. Octavio Casafranca Mamani

Casafranca was criminally investigated after an allegation that he raped a 13-year-old girl in April 2021, at the parish in the district of Coya, Calca. Per the girl’s complaint, the priest raped her after calling her into a storage room that had a bed. A woman who said she was Casafranca’s goddaughter later confronted the girl and warned her to stay away from Casafranca, saying that she had lived with him for 15 years, and that his habit was to target and manipulate teenage girls. The woman also said he had forced her to have an abortion. The girl confronted the priest who allegedly again tried to abuse her. She subsequently reported him to authorities. Casafranca told the archdiocese’s Judicial Vicarate in July 2022 that he did have late-night conversations and suggestive jokes with the girl on Facebook and that he did make advances on her, but he denied sexually assaulting her. The case was dismissed by the Calca Court. The girl and her parents appealed and the case was again heard in July 2024. Casafranca was suspended from ministry in January 2024 pending the Archdiocese’s investigation. In August 2024 Cusco’s archbishop Israel Condorhuamán said that the case had been sent to the Vatican, calling it isolated that it should not tarnish the Church’s image. In October 2026 an undated page on the archdiocese’s website shows Casafranca as assigned to a parish in Paurcatambo, Peru.