Members of the collective for the Restitution of the Rights of survivors of the Provolo dstatus that the trial initiated today in Mendoza “has international value for all survivors from various parts of the world who claim truth and justice against priests and nuns who in various ecclesiastical institutions have committed systematic abuse against children and adolescents.” In total there are 14 defendants (13 defendants and one convicted) and more than 20 victims who have testified in these nearly three years.
On the bench are two priests, charged with abuse of hypo-tuscotic boys.
Complaint of Justice before the Courts of Mendoza.
Relatives recalled that the complaint that now reached oral trial “was denied by the authorities of the Provolo Institute, but the most serious thing is that it was forgotten by the justice that did not investigate the case.”
“The institutional silences and concealments, the complicity of those who worked there, the lack of control on the part of the Directorate-General of Schools, allowed these terrible events to continue to happen,” they lamented.
The priests Nicola Corradi (83) and Horacio Corbacho (59) and former administrator and gardener Armando Gómez (49, who has a hearing disability) add up to 28 acts of sexual abuse and corruption of minors, divided into 16 accusing Corbacho, six against Corradi and six others against Gómez.La case had five defendants, if the former altar boy is included already convicted and another former administrator who was declared inimputable. The defendants risk sentences of up to 50 years in prison. In the specific case of the priest Nicola Corradi, from the family group, they indicated that “it is not an isolated event since it began at the Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy, where it sexually abused children. Undercover by the Catholic Church he was transferred, along with other abusers priests to Buenos Aires, to the Próvolo Institute of La Plata and then to Mendoza, where he again committed the same crimes”.
“Despite allegations in Italy, the country’s judiciary has declared the prescription of these heinous crimes committed against deaf children and adolescents,” they added.
In the process of instruction that I have been two and a half years ago, they also criticized as “the Catholic Church has financially supported the Kumiko Kosaka defense (charged with home prison awaiting a second stage of the trial) and how this same defense has attempted implore the actions of sign-language interpreters with the firm intention of delegitimizing witness complaints from survivors of this institute.” In this note:
