translated from Spanish: Italy’s justice has upheld the sentence to Mexican ex-priest

Rome. – Italian justice on Wednesday confirmed the sentence imposed on former Mexican priest Vladimir Reséndiz Gutiérrez for abusing two minors in 2008, when he served as director of a seminary of the Legionaries of Christ in northern Italy.
He gave the report to Apro Daniela Cultrera, a lawyer for the two plainsmen, who on Wednesday came to participate in the appeal hearing filed by the defense of the ex-legionnaire, sentenced at first instance in March of last year.
The decision was adopted by the Second Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Turin, after hearing the allegations of the prosecutor Carlo Maria Pellicano, as well as cultrera herself and the defence lawyer of Reséndiz Gutiérrez, who is at the spread of justice.
According to Cultrera, the judge only dismissed the validation of facts that occurred in 2006 and relating to one of the two victims, having fallen on prescription because of new laws enacted in Italy. Other more recent events remain valid, abounded.
 “For this reason, while the liability has been confirmed, the judge was forced to lower the tax years imposed from seven years to six years and six months,” the lawyer said. “On the contrary, the (requirement of) compensation of 80 thousand euros for each of the victims and 10 thousand euros for their families, established in the first sentence, has been maintained. They believed in the victims,” he added.
Cultrera reported that neither Reséndiz Gutiérrez nor the Legion have contacted her or her clients in recent months, after the first ruling was known. “Neither they have done it to apologise or to set out the reparation,” he said.
For this reason, he said, he personally informed the Vatican of the case, through a letter that in past months he addressed to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (exHoly Office). “I wrote to them to record the behavior of some members of the Legion’s dome,” Cultrera said.
One of the lawyer’s concerns is that the case will be completely put on hold, which is why she hopes that Italian justice will continue to work in short times. Either way, the first process will be to know the motivations behind today’s ruling, a task for which judges have a maximum time of 30 days.
Reséndiz Gutiérrez will have approximately three months to decide whether to appeal to the Supreme Court of Italy (the House), a last instance he has available before the judgment is considered final. If this possibility is not chosen, the case would be considered closed, after the maximum deadline for filing this last appeal has been met.

Original source in Spanish