Argentine bishop is accused of abusing two seminarians | Chronic

The former bishop of Oran, Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta, who had been transferred by the pope to the Vatican, was charged with the crime of continuing badual abuse and aggravated two seminarians. The court also ruled that he could not leave the country and ordered to keep his pbadport.

Accompanied by his official defender, Zanchetta appeared yesterday before the Attorney General Monica Viazzi, acting at the Criminal Office of Family Violence and Sexist in Oran, and refused to testify. According to judicial sources, the bishop would have arrived on Thursday from Rome where he could not return until his legal situation had been defined.

At the request of the prosecutor, the judge of the guarantees 2, Claudio Parisi, decided to impute Zanchetta for the aggression of two seminarians while he was bishop of Oran. For the same crimes, the priest also faces a canonical inquiry.

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In December 2017, Zanchetta was appointed by the Pope Francisco adviser in the administration of the patrimony of the Apostolic Holy Apostol APSA, called the "immovable" of the Vatican since it administers more than five thousand goods around the world.

At the end of May, in an interview with Televisa de México, Bergoglio He had acknowledged that it was his decision to take him to the Holy See after recommending him for psychological treatment. "I brought him in and I asked him to resign, well, I sent him to Spain to do a psychiatric test."the pope had said. In addition to badual abuse, the Church investigates Zanchetta for abuse of power and mismanagement of bishopric funds.