translated from Spanish: Prosecutor Arias announces that trial against priests accused of sexual abuse would begin within 6 to 8 months

the first trials against specific priests accused of sexual abuse they will be in a period of 6 to 8 months. Reported it so the Prosecutor Emiliano Arias, in charge of the inquiries for concealment of religious.
In an interview with the AFP News Agency, Arias estimated that the trial against the accomplices likely that delay longer, because it believes that it will be “difficult” to prove the crime. 
The Prosecutor argued that the fact that a person “is cited as abettor does not mean that it is doomed”, at the time that said that Chile “no jurisprudence or backgrounds that speak of criminal responsibility” in this type of crime.
Emiliano Arias also referred to the destruction of evidence which he denounced and hope that you “more than it hurts” to prove the guilt of the hierarchs.
On 21 August, Arias taken statement the Archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati, for the offence of concealment of religious involved in the crime of sexual abuse against minors. 
The Marauder said that, unlike the priests paedophiles, looks unlikely Ezzati go to jail, since the “pre-trial detention is the more expensive measure of the procedural Ordinance before the sentence” and is governed by the principle of “proportionality”. The “penalty of the Cloaker is two degrees lower to (the of the) crime committed by the author”. 

Original source in Spanish

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