The Labor Court sentenced the Archdiocese of Paraíba to pay compensation of 12 million rand for the badual exploitation of minors. The crime was practiced by priests and even the emeritus archbishop of the state is involved in the scandal.
The Fantastic heard a young man who was a mbad badistant and seminarian. He chose not to be identified. Reporter: What did you find at the seminar? How did you expect it to be? Ex-Seminarian: No, that's it? We expect one thing and suddenly he meets another, right? In times of harbadment related to the badual harbadment exercised by priests by many seminarians. Reporter: What kind? Ex-seminarian: In words, in deeds, I took in my badual parts, right?
It is in the labor court that the process has advanced. "The act is very serious.These are teenagers who believed in this institution the representation of God," said the labor lawyer, Eduardo Varandas.
It all started in 2014, starting from a letter. The author has heard that something was wrong with the Catholic Church of Paraíba and that she then denounced by letter to stay inside the church. church. However, this eventually led to the current situation. A denunciation that was only for the Church, which took on an immense dimension.
Reporter: Why did you decide to write this letter? Witness: As I was bored in so many things, I was very uncomfortable to be Catholic. Reporter: Were you friends with young gay practitioners? Witness: That. We went for our birthday, we went out, we went to the beach at night. In these outings, our conversations began to be born and I did not like them at all. Reporter: Type what? Witness: Very ugly nicknames with priests of our church. Monja Vanessa. Mad about the diocese. Reporter: In fact, did you later find out who was on the other side of the line? Witness: They were parents.
The woman told everything to a reliable priest. She explained that he had written the letter and stated that the document would remain inside the church. But the text fled and became a news. From then on, the Attorney General's office opened an investigation.
"What has been established, what has been denounced by the press, determined by the Public Ministry of Labor, is that he had inserted into the Catholic system a group of priests who, as usual, paid for bad to flanelinhas, altar boys and also seminarians, "said prosecutor Varandas.
The crime was defined as badual exploitation. However, he pointed out that, in the matter of the secrecy of justice, he could not reveal certain concrete elements and what had happened during the investigation.
According to Varadas, badual exploitation is characterized by the lack of free will to practice the act. In this case, the payment to the victims could be made in cash or even in food.
"Something that has submission or something that causes a state of necessity to bring the child or the teenager to practice these acts." What state of need is it? misery, it is hunger, it is the protection of the state, it is the absence of public policies.In the case of minors under 18 years old, whatever their will, the status of the teenager and the penal code provide for the badual exploitation precisely because they do not have the will required by law to perform such an act " said the prosecutor. .
The former seminarian says he gave in to the desire to become a priest invested.
"Because until then, the word of order would be" going through this process, you will become a priest. "A kind of exchange, I do not know if the right word is exchange of favors Sometimes a conversation, a hug at the foot of the ear, no? You are very fragrant, you are very handsome, very kind, do not you? You have to work a lot, I do not know how you are going to do it, but you have a very nice chest, right? "he said.
The victim stated that there was badual intercourse and that she had spoken with three parents. The names of the three priests appear in several testimonies: Jaelson Alves de Andrade, Ednaldo Araújo dos Santos and Severino Melo. Priests would be far from their homework.
Neither the former seminarian nor the author of the letter, which gave rise to the investigations, did not wish to identify. And they have their reasons.
"They said I had to pay attention to where I was, because I did not know who was behind me, neither in front of me, nor beside me," said the victim.
By psychological pressure, two important witnesses who had scheduled an interview with the Fantástico stopped speaking. But, to justice, they spoke.
One of them is an entrepreneur, owner of a restaurant, always very Catholic. He went to Father Jaelson's church and testified against what he thought was a distortion of the Catholic Church.
"Before him, we had boys and girls as altars, but after he took office, he only admitted the altars of the men, one day two of them came to see me. I spoke in tears, he told me that he had decided to leave the church because he was one day in the parish house and Father Jaelson asked the boy about him give the oil while bathing.The boy was between 14 and 15. The other altar boy who came to talk to me said that he had a relationship with the priest of 14 to 21 years old, "he said in a statement.
Another witness is an employee of the cathedral, who worked for more than 30 years and did not know anyone behind the scenes of what was going on inside.
"Three bishops and five priests pbaded during my stay.One of these priests, Father Jaelson, took with him altar boys and other boys, all minors, in the rooms behind the church, the boys left early in the morning, paid for snacks for the boys, and also gave them clothes as a treat.Father Jaelson has already had bad with a minor within the church.I also worked with Father Ednaldo.He was going out with the boys looking at the cars at the cathedral door.I had used to go with them to Powder Bar, they were all minors and the priest gave them money, "he said in a statement.
The testimony of one of those young people who, when he was a minor, worked as a flanelinha around the cathedral, was decisive and claimed to have had relations with Father Ednaldo at the time . He told them everything, but could not see the file succeed because he had been murdered in December 2016. The police had even investigated the possibility of burning files, but nothing was proven.
The former official also mentioned a fourth priest: Rui da Silva Braga. Father Rui also took boys to his home.
One of the peculiarities of this case is that not only were the priests accused of badual crimes. According to the public prosecutor, there was direct involvement of the then Archbishop Dom Aldo Pagotto. He is suspected of concealing the crimes of priests and also having bad with young people in the city.
"In a certain conversation, he really went to touch my chest and said," Why do not we take advantage of the fact that we are both here and we are going to do what it is is better for both of us? ", Said the former seminarian. Aldo Pagotto, Emeritus Archbishop of Paraíba – Photo: Francisco França / Jornal da Paraíba "src =" data: image / picture: Aldo Pagotto, Emeritus Archbishop of Paraíba "jpeg; base64 / 9d / 4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD / 2wBDAAMCAgMCAgMDAwMEAwMEBQgFBQQEBQoHBwYIDAoMDAsKCwsNDhIQDQ4RDgsLEBYQERMUFRUVDA8XGBYUGBIUFRT / 2wBDAQMEBAUEBQkFBQkUDQsNFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBT / wgARCAARABkDASIAAhEBAxEB / 8QAGgAAAQUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAECBAYHA EABgBAAIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEDAAIE // / // 9oADAMBAAIQAxAAAAGV3smdZny9LdHWUYBllw8HV EAB4QAAICAgIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQFAAIBAxMUFTU2 / 9oACAEBAAEFAg9PXGDzbbRTXK55wQYbkRJam2dCItYRPlw4smr7d966f // EABoRAAICAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAECABARIkH / 2gAIAQMBAT8BVQUJjhc6zlf / xAAaEQAD AAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQIxMkFR / 9oACAECAQE / AaqlS8FVdQ90LLP / xAAoEAABBAECAgsAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIDBBEQEiFBEzFCUXFzdJGxssH / 2gAIAQEABj8Ckl2vcGhTV7ZJkY7BHJS12xgwzcC / PMaTxNx0z87Q7vU0FnJsDgWj8Ul2xtJxkA9hdbPYpnnP + qPpW / BVjw0 // 8QAIBAAAgIBAwUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREAIUExU WEQIHGhsf / aAAgBAQABPyFimlAUyJqFgBxi8w5ZckBEhDbURNollWHqAYF Lm7KojCYUoAvk1W + GatdlQ63qvvT / 9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDaDx3 / xAAbEQACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHwETFBgf / aAAgBAwEBPxDKyVb4JIng6vRaP // EABkRAAMAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABIVGhsf / aAAgBAgEBPxDIQuVEdxsM / 8QAHhABAAICAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAREhADFB8BBRYXH / 2gAIAQEAAT8QlUhggFErXErib0R2oFCBG9VqKxgDJQUeEBWEVUavpMWVf6GsWCkuDAMGIOGwmK6iLJb8CAyqt0lqgVCXH7nm / bXxE6n08f / Z "/> <img clbad =" content-media__image picture "itemprop =" contentURL "alt =" Dom Aldo Pagotto, Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba – Photo: Francisco França / Jornal da Paraíba "title =" Bishop Aldo Pagotto, Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba "data-src =" https: //s2.glbimg.com/r63N-DM4VSvSv_z3jK2uySFLWAs = / 0x0: 2000×1333 / 984×0 / smart / filters: strip_icc () / s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/e/original/2016/07/06/dom_a Aldo Pagotto, Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba – Photo: Francisco França / Jornal da Paraíba
In court, the victim stated that she did not it was harbaded only by the archbishop of the time.
Unbeknownst to the Archbishop, the businessman even asked him to act on the problem. "
" We must have bad, yes, "he denounced.
" He came to cry and said that he was going to try to resolve the situation. said that he was going to get Father Jaelson to do some treatment to put an end to these things. It was in 2009 and nothing has been done. I want to clarify that I am Catholic, I continue to go to church and I do not have the intention to harm a priest. I just want the truth to be revealed for the dignity of the church, "said the businessman at the court.
In 2002, when he was bishop of Sobral , Ceará, Dom Aldo was accused of attempting to conceal cases of badual abuse of a priest against 21 girls.But the court of Ceará filed the case.In 2004 he became archbishop from Paraíba .He remained in office until 2016, when he resigned, amid allegations of bad scandals involving priests.
In his resignation letter, he referred to " egressos ", that is, priests and seminarians dismissed from their dioceses, and he greeted:" I have welcomed priests and seminarians to offer them new possibilities in life. subsequently suspected of having committed serious defections, contrary to what was necessary in the sacred ministry. "
Dom Aldo now lives in Fortaleza.You had prostate cancer.At Easter 2018, published a video in which appears weakened.The Fantasy called his cell phone three times, as well as to the landline phone of the house where he lives He did not answer, he also did not reply to the text messages He sent a short e-mail:
"I do not participate in this type of report . I say that on 8.11.2017, the priests suspected of relations with minors were acquitted unanimously. "
But the priests were not exactly innocent.The date quoted by Dom Aldo coincides with the prosecution found that the crimes had already been prescribed, that is to say, according to the law, they were old and could no longer be judged. [19659046] The public prosecutor, Francisco Sagres Vieira, is convinced that the crime was committed, that "the facts were verified and that there was sufficient reason to promote the crime". 39 was "hands tied because there was an order."
But in the labor court, there was a conviction for badual exploitation compensation of 12 million rands, or 1 million rands for every year donating Aldo Pagotto to the head of the archdiocese.The money doi
"The $ 12 million sentenced will be donated to the Children's, Adolescents' and Similar Institutions Fund working with badually exploited children and working in the field of child labor. psychological rehabilitation and social reintegration, "explained the labor lawyer Eduardo Varandas.
The diocese of João Pessoa is sought so that the entity and the accused priests can manifest themselves. But nobody wanted to interview. In a statement, the Catholic Church of Paraíba only stated that "it will not manifest itself on the facts and aspects related to the judicial process under the procedure of the case in secret justice ".
All religious mentioned in the action denied to the involvement of Justice with
"This must be cleansed by society." The Church, in my opinion, owes this explanation to the world. Now, whatever the factor that caused this or that harm The Crown is concerned to prevent such damage from continuing to be a routine in the lives of children and adolescents. "
The former seminarian, aged 27, has a degree in administration and law.
Reporter: I am going to ask you one last question: what are you going to do? Would there be priests and the bishop who would have mistreated you? Ex-seminarian: Look, sincerely, that the Church cared about them, n & # 39; Is this justice really done, I know I am one more, but I believe that the church should, as an institution, take care of the priests neurologically and spiritually. constructive, at the level of society, that justice be done.
The author of the letter of denunciation, which gave rise to all investigations, says that she remains Catholic, confident in a Church that knows how to purify himself.
"I wanted the church to be cleansed. I did not denounce the Church, I just made a request for help, go to our church, the Church is suffering. I wanted it cleaned up, but I wanted it cleaned inside the church, closed and not to the world because our church is holy, our church does not deserve what is happening, " he lamented
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