The prosecutor's office now indicates that the church's investigation system is an accessory

The O. Higgins Regional Attorney, Emiliano Arias emphasized the system of investigation of badual crimes of the Catholic Church as possible accomplice or accessory of these facts because the imposed sanctions were not enough to stop the abuses of its members.

Arias addressed the issue after the hearing of officialization of the former Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Santiago, ] Óscar Muñoz Toledo, for Sexual Abuse and bad Crimes . The religious remained in preventive prison and the prosecutor declared that "because of the seriousness of the crimes, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

At the end of the hearing, the prosecutor indicated that " treats all minors, with badual inexperience, who have been badually badaulted at the home of the accused or victims while they were in the care of the victims for the trust they have shown to the victims and their parents – in short, a breach of trust for his position as priest of the Church Catholic. "

He added that" this is no less than crimes were committed inside the church, inside the parish houses very serious and repeated crimes, in this case we observed on the part of the accused a clear psychological manipulation, an abuse of conscience towards the victims. "

Muñoz Toledo acted as "spiritual guide of these children training camp; recalling the words of the pope, these are victims who were deprived early or their innocence was carried away early . "

Regarding the crime of estupro he stressed that" it is very serious because what happens is that the will of the victim is broken in entering into his conscience, it is very serious that he was the confessor of the victim a faithful of the Catholic Church who he confesses before the same badual aggressor, who the definitely convinces that the acts that he does are not contrary to baduality. "

" This conduct is serious in itself in this case, but it is also serious because it is a priest; Being a minister of worship our Criminal Code establishes it as an aggravating circumstance and in no case will the punishment be applied to a minimum "he said [19659003] Consulted by the participation of Cardinals Ricardo Ezzati and Francisco Javier Errazuriz Prosecutor Arias spoke of the role of Muñoz Toledo as Chancellor. "He knew how the system of canonical inquiries was run within the Catholic Church " he says.

According to the prosecutor, this system of ecclesiastical investigation had Muñoz Toledo" integrated into its interior, and a transcendent role, who was the chancellor, who knew all the allegations of badual crimes before 2011. He knows what to do, how to cope, how to finally guarantee impunity . "

Arias recalled that in the Karadima case, he took statements from one of the victims, José Andrés Murillo." When you take this statement, you begin to reduce the profile to the cases. As a result, there is an important impunity that the same subject was seeking for himself and probably for other cases as well, "he explained.

Asked about the destruction of evidence ] "can not be presumed, I must prove during the investigation if they occurred" .

Then he pointed out that "this inquiry does not refer only to the actions carried out by this subject, but also refers to any accusations or participants who may have others as authors, accomplices or accessories, both in this case and in other cases "

"What we can see, is a parallel investigation system on the part of the Catholic Church with sanctions that are certainly not sufficient for that definitively they do not continue to commit crimes it's all the same And it's not something that I do, but the Pope says in the various letters that he sent to the bishops in Chile. "

Preventive prison of the former Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Santiago