Argentine priest accused of rape found dead in Chile

After three days of research, the Argentine priest Guillermo Jaime Cabalín He was found dead in a ravine in Chile. He had been reported in 2018 in Argentina for the alleged rape of a woman in 1995.

Last Friday, the 57-year-old priest called the monastery and said that I was lost. On Monday, they found him dead in a wooded area of ​​Limache. On the cause of death, the Benedictine monastery of San Benito announced that the investigation would be ongoing.

Last Friday, August 23, in his weekly walk, Brother Guillermo called the community, said that he was disoriented and asked for help. After three days of intensive searches, his body was found in a ravine of very difficult access, "said the religious order to which he belonged.

The 57-year-old priest arrived from Entre Ríos in Chile in 1990 and was currently Benedictine Monastery of San Benito of Lliu-Lliu in the diocese of Valparaíso, 120 kilometers west of Santiago.

In addition, on the charges against Cabalín, the congregation stressed: "It is our duty to inform that a previous canonical investigation was underway against Brother Guillermo, organized by the Abbot of The Child, Abbey of God of Argentina, about Lliu-Lliu Monastery, after a charge of alleged rape and badual abuse to a woman of legal age. "

The alleged badual abuse It would have occurred in 1995 and would have been denounced in the second half of 2018. "Acting on an ongoing police investigation related to Brother Guillermo, said a media outlet, the monastery had not been killed. History in this regard, "said the president. order.

According to the criminal record, the clerics were reportedly found by the staff of the Special Operations Group of the Police (BEPG) and the Border School.