An Argentinian, which he was sexually abused by a religious from Buenos Aires, denounced in a press conference of the association “Adults for Children’s Rights” at the headquarters of foreign correspondents in Italy, which before and after being elected popeJorge Bergoglio “ignored my requests to see me” despite the fact that the attacker was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Sebastián Cuattromo (47) explained that he was sexually abused when I was 13, in 1989 and was a student at the Marianista College in the Caballito neighborhood of the Argentine capital. The rapist was a religious, the brother Fernando Enrique Picciochithat he was a teacher at the school and was also abusing other children and teenagers.
Only a decade later, after completing his secondary education at the Marianist College at the age of 18, “we dared to break the silence” and brought Picciochi to justice.
the religious had fled to the United States, where he lived under an assumed name and was extradited to Argentina. In 2012 the religious was sentenced to twelve years in prison and confinement.
The sentence was appealed, but was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice, which definitively ratified it for the crime of corruption of minors qualified and confirmed.
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The Marianist College should have assumed its civil responsibility for what happened, Cuattromo said this Thursday, but demanded that the complainants agreed to remain silent on the case, according to the ecclesiastical custom of “avoiding scandal”.
Cuattromo said he appeared before church authorities. The then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. “I was received by his secretary, Monsignor Martín García Aguirre, who informed me the cardinal did not want to receive me but the then vicar of Flores, Monsignor Mario Aurelio Poli, today the cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires.
With Poli “I met twice and he told me that the ecclesiastical authorities led by Cardinal Bergoglio shared the position of the Marianist Collegethat is, admitting civil responsibility if we abused complainants commit ourselves to silence”.
“He never answered us”
Sebastián Cuattromo said that “in the ten years of Pope Bergoglio’s pontificatehe never responded to our insistent requests to receive us”.
It is the first time that Cuattromo has gone to the Vatican, just as Pope Francis is about to celebrate his tenth anniversary next Monday.
On Wednesday Cuattromo and the head of the Association of adults for children’s rights, the hepatologist Silvina Piceda, tried to deliver the a request for an audience with the Pope, But they could not enter.
After ten years of pontificate we continue to light years to be able to think that the Catholic hierarchy will look for concrete ways to repair and do justice to the victims of abuse”.
“After ten years of pontificate, we are still light years away from being able to think that the Catholic hierarchy will seek concrete ways to repair and bring justice to the victims of abuse”.
Cuattromo said that this Friday at the Casa Argentina in Rome in Via Veneto, the leaders of Adults for the Rights of Children in Argentina, will present the book “We survived”, already published in our country, made by eight Argentine writers.
Piceda and Cuattromo started in Rome a tour to meet the associations of child victims of violations in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Belgium.
European Union officials from 27 countries will meet in Brussels.
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Source: Clarin
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