P. Linán Ruiz Morales OFM
From New York, of Puerto Rican descent. Arrived in Peru in 1978 to promote the Encuentros de Promoción Juvenil movement. Found murdered at age 80 in August 2010, along with his assistant, in the Convent of San Francisco in Lima. One month later, in September 2010, Diario Correio reported that in 2002 a complaint had been filed in Puerto Rico that Linán Ruiz had sexually abused a minor there several years earlier. The Archdiocese of Puerto Rico said it had informed the Franciscans’ Provincial Superior and, in August 2003, notified Lima’s archbishop Cipriani Thorne. The Lima archdiocese said that Linán Ruiz was prohibited from ministry as of September 11, 2003.
- Priest killed near soup kitchen in Peruvian capital, EWTN News, 08.30.2010
- Asesino del sacerdote Linán Ruiz confiesa, Diario Correo, 09.04.2010
- Padre Linán fue acusado de actos impropios con un menor en Puerto Rico, RPP, 09.06.2010
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Cura Linán estaba prohibido de ejercer el sacerdocio, Diario Correo, 09.08.201
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