Br. Abel Pérez Ruiz
Spanish. Told the Marists in 2010 that he had abused 14 children in two Santiago schools over a 30-year period, beginning in the 1970s. It wasn’t until August 2017 – seven years after Perez’s admission – that the Marists filed a complaint with the Santiago prosecutor’s office, after two of Pérez’s victims came forward. The Marists said that Pérez was removed from contact with children and sent to one of its residences in Peru after Pérez admitted to the abuse.
- Sacerdote en Chile es denunciado por abuso de 14 menores, El Espectador, 08.29.2017
- El oscuro sótano de los Maristas, by Claudio Pizarro and Jonás Romero, The Clinic, 10.25.2017
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