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There Attorney General of the Nation announced that a priest 41-year-old was sentenced to nine years in prison for the aggravated felony of abusive sexual acts with a smaller 14 years in a homogeneous and successive competition.
A priest will have to pay 9 years in prison for a case of sexual abuse of a minor in Santander
According to the investigation by the Attorney General’s office, the minor’s mother discovered what had happened thanks to a message sent to the victim’s phone
According to research conducted by a Solicitor for the Comprehensive Care Center for Victims of sexual abuse (Caivas), the abuses were committed in November 2014 against a smaller 14 years old, who worked as an acolyte in a church in the town of floridablancaSantander, where the man sentenced today served as a priest.
In this way the pursuit established that on several occasions the priest groped the victim in a lustful manner and made various sexual proposals.
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Additionally, the minor’s mother, who was concerned about her son’s change in behavior, became aware of the situation when she checked her cell phone and found a message sent by the priest where he made an invitation to have intimate encounters.
“The Sectional Directorate of Public Prosecutors of Santander continues its defense of the integrity and sexual training of young people, and in general, of children and adolescents, as a priority in the strategic direction designed by the Attorney General of the Nation”, has said the prosecutor. in charge of the file.
For its part, the defense of the accused appealed the sentence first instance before the Superior Court of Bucaramanga. However, he was sent to Modelo prison in Bucaramanga and it will be the Superior Court of Bucaramanga that will decide whether to reduce his sentence or ratify the 9-year prison sentence.
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Let us recall that in Colombia, according to figures from the pursuitthere are 45 religious prosecuted for sex crimes.
On the other hand, on February 9, 2023, the Catholic Church announced that an act of forgiveness would be made for all cases of pedophilia, and so it was.
Thus, and aware of its errors and negligence, the Catholic Church in Colombia asked forgiveness for the cases of pederasty occurred in the country and announced reparation to the victims of these perpetrated acts.
“We recognize that every case of sexual abuse is a crime, it’s a grave sin, it’s a crime. We apologize to those who suffered this scourge and to all our people. We continue to assume with firmness and responsibility the attention that is due to the victims and their families”. Monsignor explained Luis Manuel Ali HerreraSecretary General of the Episcopal Conference.
In this sense, the Episcopal Conference of Colombia has structured the booklet “The culture of care”, in which it establishes the roadmap for providing comprehensive, economic and psychological reparation to victims. The document includes preventive measures and attention to complaints.
In the same way, the manual indicates the appropriate treatment that the Church should consider for priests investigated For pederasty. Furthermore, the highest representative of the Catholic Church in the country, at the end of the assembly of bishops, he explained that in addition to public apologies, there will be educational actions so that the victims can denounce in all the dioceses.
Besides, Bishop Ali ruled that the priests who are involved in business sexual abuse They will be separated from the Church and if by request of ordinary justice they have to go to prison, the institution will not oppose it.
“Any complaint we have, the priest separates immediately, this is called canonical conservatory measures and if the ordinary justice says that he must also go to prison, he goes to prison; In this we are clear that a priest is a citizen,” he explained.