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Pope Francisco accepted the resignation of the former chaplain of the Carabinieri, the police in Chile's uniform, Luis Felipe Egaña, accused of having badually abused a child for 33 years, has Saturday indicated a statement from the Chilean Church.
Egaña had asked the pope to accept his resignation after his denunciation, in June of last year, for badual badault on a minor in 1985, which adds to the wave of scandals. pedophiles of hundreds of religious investigated in the Chilean justice and that they caused a crisis in the church of the country.
The pope hailed the petition "for the good of the church" and Egaña was "excluded from the clerical state and the proper duties of the priesthood", says the note published by the diocese of Talca where he has exercised his priestly functions in recent years.
Last August, an investigation had determined that the charges against him were "credible", but the abuses were already prescribed.
Before the pope accepted his resignation, the antecedents had been sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, an entity charged with investigating the denunciations of pedophilia against of priests.
Francisco, who had promised "zero tolerance" for badual crimes, had accepted last year the resignations of seven Chilean bishops, expelled from the priesthood two other eminent bishops and priests, Fernando Karadima and Cristián Precht.
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