P. Fredy Valdivia Velásquez

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Status: Convicted

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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