P. Luis Hernán del Carpio Costa
Diocese: Diocese of Chimbote, Peru
Accused in July 2014 of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, who was an altar server at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, in the Nicolas Galatea neighborhood of the Nuevo Chimbote district. Del Carpio was a priest of the parish. His victim testified that he lured her into a room at the parish, then forcibly kissed her and touched her private parts. Del Carpio was convicted and received a ten-year suspended sentence in October 2017, and removed from the clerical state by the Vatican. Del Carpio fled. Chimbote’s Bishop Simon Piorno stated that del Carpio should turn himself in. In October 2020, after a two-year search, he was captured by law enforcement in the El Porvenir neighborhood of Chimbote, then transferred to the Cambio Puente prison to serve his sentence. In March 2025 an appeal of del Carpio’s conviction was denied by Peru’s Constitutional Court.
- Sacerdote es condenado a diez años pero pena no se hará efectiva, RPP, 11 de octubre de 2017
- SENTENCIAN A 10 AÑOS DE PRISIÓN A EXSACERDOTE DE NUEVO CHIMBOTE POR TOCAMIENTOS A MENOR, Poder Judicial del Peru, 11 de octubre de 2017
- Dictan 10 años de prisión a ex cura por tocamientos indebidos, El Comercio, 12 de octubre de 2017
- Obispo considera que exsacerdote condenado a 10 años de cárcel debería entregarse a la justicia, Chimbote en Línea, 13 de abril de 2018
- Exsacerdote sentenciado por tocamientos indebidos es capturado en Chimbote, Diario Correo, 26 de octubre de 2020
- Capturan a sacerdote condenado a 10 años de cárcel por tocamientos indebidos a una niña, Wayka.pe, 27 de octubre de 2020
- AUTO DEL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL, Peru, 04 de febrero de 2021
- SENTENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL, Peru, 10 de marzo de 2025
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