Abuse: repudiate the words of the bishop of San Francisco

Carlos Lombardi, legal representative of the Network of Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Argentina, repudiated yesterday the words of the bishop of San Francisco, Sergio Buenanueva, published in a note addressed to La Nación.

In the publication, Buenanueva provided information on the 63 complaints filed against religious accused of abuse over the past 20 years. In this context, he baderted that there "existed in the Church a system of illness that concealed the abuses". He also stated that the Church did not have a registry of abusers among its members and that the problem was part of one of the most serious institutional crises of recent times.

This Sunday, La Voz published a special report on abuses committed in the Catholic Church, with testimonials from Daniel Vera, Pablo Huck and Mauricio Ruybal, as well as the position of Archbishop Carlos Ñáñez.

Against the words of the bishop, the lawyer Carlos Lombardi issued a statement in which he repudiated Buenanueva's statements.

He regarded it as "atrocious cynicism" to say that an ecclesiastical system concealed abuse. "It was not only the current system of cloaking that is itself part of the system since there are three levels of institutional responsibility: that of the abusive priest, that of the bishop. covering and that of those who deliberately developed the system, concentrated in the Code of Canon Law, the authentic snake egg. "He said.

"The current example of the validity of the system is the case of the monks of Cristo Orante in Mendoza, where the plaintiff continues to hide the canonical search status." "When he says that" the Argentine Church does not have a register of aggressors among its members, "he acknowledges a problem that is part of the institutional strategy: keeping secret files.

Family support is the key to complaints

The son of the former maltreated seminary offered his support.

"A few months ago, as a result of other events that hit my family hard, my old man," at age 50, was encouraged to recount the ordeal he's been living at. Seminary period. He asked him if he could do it publicly. stronger than ever, "said Daniel Vera, the son of the former homonymous writer who said The voice the abuses he suffered in 1985. Vera said that he was encouraged to denounce as a result of other public affairs.