Os padres Nicola Corradi (o que está na cadeira de rodas), de 84 anos, foi sentenciado a 42 anos de prisão e o padre Horacio Corbacho (o de verde na extrema esquerda), de 59 anos, a 45 anos de prisão por abusar sexualmente de crianças surdas. 10 vítimas fazem parte da acusação judicial, mas por volta de 20 fizeram acusações aos padres.
É um caso terrível conhecido por Bergoglio há muito tempo.
Os abusos na Argentina aconteceram no Instituto Antonio Provolo para Crianças Surdas e Mudas na província de Mendoza. Os crimes ocorreram no período de 2004 a 2016. Corradi também foi acusado de abuso sexual de crianças na Itália e por onde passou na Argentina desde os anos 70.
E o Papa Francisco, quando arcebispo em Buenos Aires, já sabia dos casos, como pontífice, recebeu carta das vítimas e também recebeu em mãos uma lista dos padres acusados, mas nunca se pronunciou.
Temos um outro abusador sexual argentino morando onde mora o próprio Papa no Vaticano, Gustavo Zachetta. A justiça argentina pede a extradição dele ao Papa, que até agora não liberou.
O jornal argentino La Nacion fez uma cronologia deste caso de abuso sexual no Instituto Antonio Provolo,
cliquem aqui para ver a cronologia.
As vítimas celebraram o veredito e tiveram palavras contra Francisco:
Vejam parte do relato do
The Catholic Herald:
Priests convicted of abusing children at Argentina
school for the deaf
...
Father Nicola
Corradi, an 83-year-old Italian, sat in a wheelchair Monday, while he was
sentenced to 42 years in prison Nov. 25, alongside Father Horacio Corbacho, 59,
sentenced to 45 years. A lay employee, gardener Armando Gomez, was sentenced to
18 years in prison.
The abuse
took place at the now-closed Antonio Provolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing
Impaired children in Argentina’s Mendoza province. The trial concerned more
than 20 instances of abuse in all, including charges of rape, sexual touching,
and corruption of minors. The students were reportedly forced to watch
pornography or perform sex acts among themselves.
The cases
involve 10 students, though about 20 have made abuse accusations. The abusers
especially targeted children who spent the night in the institute’s shelters,
and the victims said they were afraid to report for fear of living in poverty
after being expelled or for fear their parents would be punished.
The students
were typically from poor families and had communication limitations. The school
did not teach sign language but followed a methodology that aimed to teach
children to read and speak like those who could hear, the Washington Post reported
in February. Students at the school who used sign language would be physically
reprimanded.
The crimes
took place from 2004 to 2016, when Corradi, Corbacho, and others were arrested
and the school shut down.
After the
verdict, victims of the men celebrated outside the courtroom.
“I am happy,
thank you so much for the battle, because everyone has supported us. … This has
changed my life, which is evolving,” Vanina Garay, 26, told the Associated
Press.
Corradi is a
member of the Company of Mary, an Italian religious community that operates
schools for deaf children in several countries. The schools are named for
Antonio Provolo, a nineteenth-century Italian priest who founded Corradi’s
religious community.
Corradi
worked at a sister school in in La Plata, Argentina from 1970 to 1994, and
former students have accused him of abuse there as well. Before that, he worked
at an Antonio Provolo school in Verona, Italy. He was first accused of abuse in
2009, when 14 Italians reported that they had been abused by priests, religious
brothers, and other adults at the Provolo Institute in Verona, over the course
of several decades.
They could
not face civil prosecution due to statutes of limitations.
After a
Vatican investigation, five priests at the Italian institute were sanctioned;
but Corradi, then living in Argentina, was not among them. A Vatican
investigator believed his sole accuser was a victim of abuse, but because
Corradi was accused by so many of abuse and his story showed apparent
inconsistencies the investigator doubted the plausibility of his claims,
according to the Washington Post.
When the
Argentine trial opened on Monday, among those protesting outside of the court
was ex-student Ezequiel Villalonga, who is now 18.
“Those of us
from the Próvolo in Mendoza said: ‘no more fear. We have the power’,” he said,
according to the Associated Press. Like many other abuse victims at the school,
he is harshly critical of Pope Francis.
“Francis was
very quiet about the abusive priests, but now the sentence is coming,” said
Villalonga. “I know that the pope is afraid because the deaf have been brave.”
Advocates for
the victims have called for the abusers to be dismissed from the clerical
state.
...
Pope Francis
previously served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He headed the Argentine
bishops’ conference when the alleged crimes were reported in 2009 and 2010.
In 2014,
Corradi was the subject of a letter sent to Pope Francis from Italian victims
of sexual abuse who were concerned about the priest’s ongoing ministry, despite
the accusations against him. In 2015, the group handed a list of priests
accused of abuse to the Pope in person, according to the Washington Post.
The group
reportedly did not hear back from Pope Francis, but did hear from a Vatican
official, Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, who wrote to the group in 2016 to tell
them that he had informed the Italian bishops’ conference of their request for
an investigation.
Later that
year, Corradi, as well as Corbacho and another employee of the school, were
arrested. When Argentine authorities arrested Corradi and Corbacho, the
Washington Post reported, local officials said the Church in Argentina was not
fully cooperative with the investigation.
