A news report in February 2019 revealed that Aguilera has been under church investigation since 2018 for alleged sexual abuse. Well-known chaplain at the Catholic University of Salta and pastor of Salta's Santa Lucia parish until March 2019. “Abuse Is Present throughout the History of the Catholic Church,” Interview with Jorge Llistosella, Radio Sudamericana, en Español Case was cited in a 2012 book, Abusos Sexuales en la Iglesia Católica, by Argentine journalist Jorge Llistosella.
Abused children at the Salesian Institute, Instituto Religioso Pío XI, where he taught catechesis and ran the game room and library. Sentenced in September 1986 to 18 years of prison for corruption and abuse of minors. Obispo se reunió con joven de Ushuaia que denunció abusos de un sacerdote,, Įl obispo de Río Gallegos abrió proceso canónico contra un sacerdote acusado de abuso,,
Ushuaia: Otro sacerdote fue denunciado por abuso sexual,, ĭos curas denunciados por presunto abuso sexual contra menores fueron suspendidos por el Obispo,, As of October 2018, the priest's legal case in Argentina also was still in process. News reports stated that final confirmation of the sentence from the Vatican was pending, suggesting that Acevedo had appealed the sentence. In October 2018, D'Annibale announced that in August 2018, the Vatican had expelled Acevedo from the clerical state, having found him guilty of sexually abusing a minor. In March 2017, the apostolic administrator for the Rio Gallegos diocese, Miguel Ángel D'Annibale, announced that he had been authorized by the Vatican to put the priest through a "criminal administrative process" under canon law. At the time of the complaint, Acevedo was working as rector of the Sanctuary of San Cayetano and was in charge of San José Obrero parish in Rio Gallegos. Acevedo was suspended from public ministry pending civil and church investigations. Per the complaint, two of the incidents occurred in his home in Resistencia, Chaco, and the third was after the boy had moved to Ushuaia, when Acevedo contacted him and they met in a car. On Novemthe young man filed a complaint with the Family and Minority Police Station in Ushuaia. In May 2016 a 23-year-old man reported to the diocese that, on three occasions, when he was ages 15, 17 and 18, Acevedo tried to sexually abuse him. Alfredo Soiza-Piñeyro | Unnamed Priest, S.D.P. Orlando Alberto Battagliola/Battaglio | Rev. | Brother Richard Suttle, C.M.F.Īccused Argentine Priests, Brothers and Nuns in Other Countries Gustavo Óscar ZanchettaĪccused Foreign Priests, Brothers and Nuns in Argentina Alejandro José Squizziatto | Archbishop Edgardo Gabriel Storni | Rev. | Brother Fernando Enrique Picciochi, S.M. Felipe de Jesús Parma/Nicolás Parma | Rev.
Eduardo Lorenzo | Bishop Juan Carlos Maccarone | Rev. Ricardo Giménez | Brother Isaac Gómez, S.M. Viviana/Bibiana or Leopoldina Fleitas, O.F.M. Thank you!Īccused Argentine Priests, Brothers and Nuns The database is entirely dependent on their work and a tribute to it.Ĭontact us: please email us at with corrections and additions. This database collates information from media coverage and court filings, which exist only because of the courage of survivors and the diligence of journalists. In Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands, all of which have fewer priests and Catholics than Argentina, church officials have admitted to totals many times larger. This list, then, is a fraction of the total number of accused clerics who would be known if Argentina’s bishops were required to report to law enforcement, if its legal system allowed victims more time to bring criminal and civil charges, or if dioceses were investigated by prosecutors or state commissions. Most children who are sexually abused, especially by Catholic priests, never report their abuse those who do report usually do so decades later. We know from abuse data published elsewhere that such prompt reporting to civil authorities by victims is atypical. In addition, most of these cases were reported by the victim or the victim's parents to law enforcement within two to three years of occurrence. Most of these cases involve alleged abuse that occurred in the last 20 years the online public record contains very little information about clergy sexual abuse in Argentina before 1995. We have examined news and court archives to identify nearly 100 clergy in Argentina publicly accused of sexually abusing minors and vulnerable adults. Pope Francis' Response to Abuse Cases as Buenos Aires Archbishop.Argentine Victims Who Tried to Meet with Pope Francis.Publicly Accused Priests, Brothers, and Nuns in Argentina