A special mission of the Holy See will arrive in Peru next week to “investigate, listen and present a report” on the case “Christian Life Partnership” (SVC), a Catholic group that has been accused for several years of committing abuses in the Andean country.
The Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) reported this Saturday, in a statement, that the mission will be made up of the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, and the Spanish priest Jordi Bertomeu, both members of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and experts in crimes of abuse.
The communiqué maintained that the CEP “greets the visit” of the envoys of the Holy See and that its president, Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos, He will meet with the envoys of Pope Francis on July 26 at the headquarters of the Apostolic Nunciature in Lima.
“I think it is excellent that this matter is investigated in depth, that the people involved are listened to and I am sure that the report will be fair and objective for the good of all”Cabrejos said in the statement.
The call “Solidarity case” was revealed in 2015 by Peruvian journalists Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugazwho published the book “Half monks, half soldiers” which collects the testimonies of victims of physical, psychological and sexual abuse allegedly committed by members of the Sodalicio.
Ugaz and Salinas, who have even met with the Pope Franciscohave repeatedly denounced that they are victims of monitoring, harassment and repeated judicial complaints in retaliation for having denounced this case.
In January 2018, the Vatican announced the intervention of the Sodalicio, a month after the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office requested preventive detention for several members and former members of the organization, including its founder, Luis Fernando Figari.
In response to the complaints, the Sodalicio assured that an internal investigation group determined that the identified attackers were Figari, the late Germán Doig, as well as Virgilio Levaggi and Jeffrey Daniels, who were removed from the organization.
That report concluded that at least 36 people, 19 of them minors, were allegedly victims of sexual abuse between 1975 and 2002 by leaders of the organization, although the Prosecutor’s Office filed the complaints of sexual abuse because they had prescribed.
(With information from EFE)
Source: Gestion
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