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The bishop of Aysén, Luis Infanti, today denied allegations of concealment of badual abuse perpetrated on TVN's "Special Report" program, released Tuesday night. In addition, Infanti denounced the manipulation of the events that took place in the house of miners Villa San Luis, of the Work of Father Guanella.
In a detailed statement, Infanti recalled that Villa San Luis has served as a juvenile home since 1976 in Coyhaique. , under the canonical and civil responsibility of the religious congregation "Obra Don Guanella" with the autonomy of the apostolic Vicariate of Aysén, who only approved the presence of the congregation in the vicariate. He adds that since 1991 this house is a collaborator of Sename, the entity in charge of supervising it.
Infanti adds that in 2005 the social worker and the home psychologist detected physical and psychological abuse among minors, as well as badual abuse among the miners themselves. They informed the director of the house, Sename and himself, as bishop, as well as the Justice and Peace Commission.
Since at the time the Vicariate had no ecclesiastical tribunal to accept the complaints, Infanti proposed to denounce the Aysén regional prosecutor's office for serious investigation, responsible and professional, which became effective. The public prosecutor opened the investigation by the prosecutor Luis González Aracena and later, Sename became part of the case, recalled Infanti.
In the investigation, the Bishop added, the IDP detected "serious ill-treatment, abuse and abuse between the same children of the home and religious adults of the work". In addition, in 2005, in parallel with the actions of the public prosecutor, he informed the Obra Don Guanella congregation of the allegations of abuse so that, in accordance with canon law, the congregation badumed the corresponding actions in these cases [19659006]. "In November 2006, I received a confidential report from Sename that consolidates the investigation of several institutions on the case, which shows the seriousness of the abuses, abuses and violations in the country. old house, which testifies to the participation of the priests and religious of the congregation Obra Don Guanella, without identifying them at the moment.As a result, I met all the members of the household staff to urge them to cooperate with the Prosecutor's investigation, "added Infanti
recalling that in November 2006, Sename had ordered the closure of the house .The decision to temporarily archive the investigation, which was reopened in April 2011 and who, on August 4, 2011, was cited to testify before the Public Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation, "and I provided all the information I knew."
also mentioned that on November 5, 2012 the Vicariate created the Council "Care and Hop e "for the prevention of the abuse of minors by the clergy, in accordance with the directives of the Episcopal Conference of Chile. "Until today, this Council has not received any complaints about the former home of Villa San Luis," said Infanti.
On the same denunciations of the "Special Report" of TVN, he claimed that "Mr. Luis Hernández, a victim of abuse at home, he spoke to me in 2011 about his traumatic experience. I asked him for forgiveness in the name of the Church, I acknowledged before him the errors committed, as well as the condemnation of these painful events.I also explained to him that it was the Vicariate who had confided the question to justice when the house was closed.He also expressed his agreement with dialogue and serenity for having closed a cycle in his life. "
" Regarding what Ms. Elizabeth Cerda said, I I remember talking to her at the end of the year 2001, she expressed her boredom of having been disengaged as a guardian of the house, also saying that she filed a complaint with the court of the Coyhaique's work for unjustified dismissal against Obra Don Guanell congregation I explained to him that he should be referred to his direct employer, "said Infanti.
"Later, I learned that the cause of his dismissal was related to serious allegations of abuse towards the same children at home. I did not receive from Ms. Elizabeth Cerda the allegations of badual abuse within Don Guanella's work to which she refers in the report. If that were the case, I would have taken the corresponding steps, as I did in 2005 when I received the official complaint about these incidents, "added the bishop. to the Pope's envoys to Osorno Immediately he claims to have conversed with me three or four times by handing me letters, baderting that this statement is categorical: I have never met him or met him personally "
" It is striking that the report tried to give space to meet other bishops directly at home, I was not contacted by any means, and they used my statements in the program "El Informante" on May 27 on TVN, taking them out of context, "he said
. Formulated by the journalist Matías del Río about my knowledge of child abuse by religious in the region of Aysén, my answer was "no" in reference to the formal complaints made by the council "Care and hope of the Vicariate. Until today I have not received any complaints with this characteristic of this institutional way regarding the old Villa San Luis house. "
Finally, he said that" always my intention was that in this painful case of Villa San Luis is establish the truth and justice is done ", to then excuse again these facts and denounce the manipulation of "political actors who appear today, and who were silent at the time. "
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