Chile”s highest ecclesiastical authority is issued on the pedophilia
Karadimas, trainer for decades of religious and even five bishops, is investigated from this week in court by the prosecutor of the eastern area of Santiago, Xavier Armendariz, due to four allegations of sexual misconduct, committed for 20 years.
Cardinal Errazuriz made the announcement after meeting the letter today, along with the president of the episcopal conference and bishops of Rancagua, Monsignor Alejandro Goic, with President Sebastian Pinera, the palace of La Moneda, a meeting scheduled for three weeks to analyze the effects of the earthquake on February 27.
“On the subject I”ll write a letter to parish priests and, therefore, to Christian communities. This weekend you”re going to know, and therefore would not comment further on the issue, “said the cardinal to leave La Moneda.
About the time it takes the ecclesiastical investigation about the case Karadimas, Cardinal said the investigation is now in charge of Fermin Donoso “because there was a change of promoter of justice,” the ANSA news agency reported.
Priest Donoso told the Chilean newspaper “La Tercera” it expects to close the inquiry this semester.
A version of the magazine “Que Pasa” revealed today that victims of abuses by the background gave Karadimas the archbishop of Santiago in 2004 and opened an investigation Errazuriz about in 2006.
He said the appellants asked the church on the progress of the investigation and the response was that church does not respond to these inquiries. “
&am1000p;quot; That motivated them to go to court, “the magazine” Que Pasa “.
One of the victims (not identified) told the magazine that “when we felt guilty and thought to talk about what happened, he (Karadimas) told us we would be the hardest hit, because nobody would believe us: we lived in an environment where His image was spotless.”s told us it was our spiritual father. “
Priest, 79, ceased to be pastor of El Bosque in September 2006.
Juan Pablo Bulnes, the lawyer defending Karadimas said he is innocent and said his health is delicate because it was heart surgery a year and a half.
Moreover, two of the four men accused of sexual abuse Karadimas told that they attribute to religion, in remarks published today by the U.S. daily New York Times.
James Hamilton, 44 , said he Karadimas became his father figure, confessor and spiritual guide when, at age 17, he joined the youth movement of Catholic Action in Chile: “He was the representative of God on me,” said the man.
“In the beginning, did not give importance to the priest, as he tried to kiss him on the mouth and touching the genitals, until, during a retreat in a coastal town west of Santiago, took his game Karadimas much sexual beyond, “wrote the New York Times.
He added that the trauma of the abuse continued until 38, when he was married with a woman who regularly went to confession the same religion.
Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Cruz, 46, who now works as an executive at a U.S. corporation, said that when she was 17 and studying at the seminary in Chile, took advantage of their vulnerability-Karadimas had just lost his father and was unclear as to their sexual identity “to abuse it.
Cruz told the New York Times used the Karadimas sacrament of confession to abuse him and force him into silence, using him as revealed in confidence to blackmail him. (Telam) rb-jar23/04/2010 18:23