translated from Spanish: Bishop of San Felipe complainant ensures that laymen are part of “safety net”

in the framework of the research, in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office in contr “of the Bishop of San Felipe, Cristián Contreras Molina, for crimes”against the order of the families, against the sexual integrity and public morality”, the complainant and former seminarian thumb Mauricio, referred to the case and said, with regard to what is happening, that” Unfortunately the Catholic Church lost the chance to have recognized the abuses, because until today he speaks of victims in general. Now, what we have left, is the Church to take crimes and consequences.”
Also told that approximately ten years ago the Bishop Contreras took him to his home, where he said that the crimes of sexual connotation occurred and that these would have been extended by a month, recorded CNN.
Meanwhile, the former seminarian, also denouncing of the Humberto Enríquez priest before the bishopric of Valparaíso, accused the Diocese of San Felipe is the ideal place to hide this kind of criminals because “it’s like the backyard of the Diocese of Valparaíso”.
He added causing in this new “there’s previous allegations of cover-up to priests, as complaints of sexual abuse committed by it against those who in turn lay were also under age”.
In that sense, blamed the Church for not recognizing the abuses individually, but also to laymen: “They have made the decision, both in Valparaiso and Los Andes, of confronting the bishops, lose fear of confronting them”. Said, moreover, that “most likely is that it have no idea what is wrong with the Bishop Contreras, because the nuncio of Chile does not cooperate in the Vatican”.
Finally, he argued that network protection and concealment also involves lay people “because they have no choice”.
“Some priests have held the confession as a method of extortion,” ended.
 

Original source in Spanish