The Paraíba Church must pay 12 million rand for sexual exploitation

The State of São Paulo announced that the Labor Court had sentenced the Archdiocese of Paraíba to pay 12 million rand as compensation for the badual exploitation committed by priests against children. children and adolescents, according to the report Fantastic broadcast on Sunday 20 on TV Globo. In court, the people involved denied the crimes. "It was determined that there was a group of priests who routinely paid bad to flanelinhas, altars and seminarians," said prosecutor Eduardo Varandas, Fantastic .

According to the publication, the state yesterday sought the archdiocese and the public prosecutor's office of Paraíba, but was not able to do so. contact us. Aldo Pagotto, who was at the head of the archdiocese at the time of the complaint, said on television that he would not participate in this type of reporting and that the accused priests had already been acquitted in court criminal. The report states that this survey was effectively closed. Bishop Aldo left the local archdiocese in 2016. The payment to exploited youths would be in cash and even in food, according to the complaint. "The characteristic of badual exploitation is the lack of free will to practice the act," Varandas said.

A former seminarian said on television that he had been exploited by priests. " There was badual abuse committed by priests and seminarians, in words, deeds, they took my badual parts," said the victim to Fantastic . At the time, he was 17 years old. "The word of order would be:" By following this process, you will become a priest. "According to the report, a former employee of the cathedral told the Ministry of Labor that one of the priests had" taken altar boys and other children, all minors, to sleep with him in the rooms located behind the church, complete the