P. Antonio José Zapata Calle
Diocese: Prelature of Ayaviri, Peru
Missionary priest from the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia. Arrived in Peru in April 2009, assigned to a parish in the province of Sandia in the Puno region. In June 2009 the family of a 9-year-old girl with Down syndrome reported to law enforcement that Zapata had raped their daughter. The local mixed-jurisdiction court ordered Zapata’s detention. He was arrested in August 2009 and sent to a prison in Juliaca. In January 2016 the Colombian news outlet Las 2 Orillas reported that Zapata was “currently at liberty, and his whereabouts are unknown.”
- Alegría por el recibimiento de tres nuevos sacerdotes misioneros a la Prelatura de Ayaviri, Fides News Agency, 04.28.2009
- Detenido en Perú cura colombiano por presunto abuso de niña con síndrome Down, Wl Espectador, 08.25.2009
- Sacerdote colombiano detenido por presunta violación a niña en Perú, W Radio 08.25.2009
- Primeros 18 sacerdotes colombianos acusados de pedofilia, Las 2 Orillas, 01.20.2016
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