translated from Spanish: “Are you queer?”: the brutal question of the ecclesiastical court victim of sexual abuse by the priest Ramón Iturra

A round of interviews carried out by the Peruvian priest, Francisco Iglesias, was made in the clerics court to investigate the case of sexual abuse reported by former acolyte of Constitution, Cri Stian Alcaino.
Former acolyte was presented before the Court to testify against the priest Ramón Iturra, who sexually abused him when he was 11 years old at the beginning of 1989.
Alcaino filed the complaint in February of last year, through a letter where they had also pointed to the then Bishop of Linares, Tomislav Koljatic, for concealment.
However, the interrogation to the former acolyte was marked by brutal facts, Fernando Leal, Alcaíno lawyer denounced.
Through their social networks, professional accused churches refused entry to the ecclesiastical court, and also reported that he attacked Alcaíno with the following question: “Are you gay?”.
The Professional also told Radio Cooperativa that his client “said that they asked his lady by their sexuality”.  “How is your husband in the sexual?”, was the improper question formulated by the cure churches.
“It is very difficult and sad to return to go through this and remember what has been lived, but I will continue to make justice once for all,” the victim told Radio Cooperativa.

Alcaino lawyer also reported receiving threats from churches where his name appeared in the press.

Priest accused of abuse, Ramón Iturra, currently has forbidden to exercise the priestly ministry publicly until the final sentence.
The case of Cristian Alcaíno in early 1988, Cristian Alcaíno, then an 11-year-old boy and acolyte of Constitution, accompanied the priest Ramón Iturra up to his father’s House, where he was abused by the prelate, according to complaint in a letter that sent father Francisco.
In 2017, Alcaíno met with Bishop Tomislav Koljatic, who promised an investigation to canonical around the case. “Received my letter and they have done nothing, not even reached the Vatican as I promised”, said.
To void Koljatic response, in February of last year, Alcaíno delivered the complaint to the Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna, during the visit made to Chile to investigate cases of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church.
In June of last year, the Diocese of Linares reported the Vatican responded to the complaint by sexual abuse, which opened a series of investigations to other parishes where Ramón Iturra, also exercised his ministerial office.

Original source in Spanish