LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The top Bolivian prosecutor launched an investigation Monday into a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia…
The Society of Jesus in Bolivia has begun an investigation to determine if several of its members who served as superiors at the time of the abuse had covered.
null / Credit: CathopicACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as "blunders," and that the Jesuits covered it up.A nephew of Pedrajas found the diary and contacted the Society of Jesus in Bolivia to file a complaint, and then went to the Spanish prosecutor s office, which dismissed the case for having passed the statute of limitations, El Pais reported.The journalistic investigation also compiled testimonies from alleged victims and relatives.According to a May 9 report by El País, the priest disclosed the alleged abuses to at least seven provincial superiors and some 10 Bolivian and Spanish clergy members.The Bolivian state attorney general s office announced on Monday that it will investigate the incidents linked
A Spanish Jesuit abused dozens of children in Bolivia. Covered up by the Church, he left an unusual testimony written. We reconstruct their history from the hand of victims and relatives
Bolivia's Jesuit congregation apologized Tuesday and announced an investigation into a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia dating back to the 1980s. "We apologize for the pain this has caused," said the Rev. Bernardo Mercado, head of the Catholic religious order known as La Compa??a de Jes?s. He said the congregation