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A group of nuns who left the Catholic Church said to have been "for years" sexually abused by priests and ignored by the church's ecclesiastical authorities " Sisters of the Good Samaritan ", in Maule Chile according to information published by a local television
Addressing the journalistic research program" Special Report ", broadcast Tuesday night through the network public of Chilean television ( TVN ), the religious claimed to have been the victim of work abuse at the convent located in the municipality of Molina 210 kilometers south of Santiago
They added that after reporting abuses to their superiors, they were punished and expelled from the congregation without any compensation.
Yolanda Tondreaux one of them, said that she had suffered He m disgusted me, "he added and said that he immediately passed in front of the Mother Superior, Patricia Ibarra and reported what had happened, but she, far from helping her, called her a liar and he ordered to confess to him. He said himself: "The girls left the convent for the same reason, because there were priests who caressed them," said Tondreaux in the Chilean media report.
She claims to have seen during her religious life up to 20 million pesos (about $ 30,700 at the current exchange rate) to priests who have been victims of abuse.
Instead, she was part of a group of 23 nuns expelled from the congregation without economic compensation for denouncing the abuses.
Another ex-monk, Eliana Macías reported that in addition to suffering and attending the petitions of the nuns, she saw a priest enter the sisters' chambers for to do wrong things. pios or to see them without clothes. "
" He said that he had never seen a naked woman, which is why he did it. The priest also went to the patio and undressed. The superior mother knew it. I was disgusted, disgusted. "
He also spoke about the program Consuelo Gómez also a religious of the same congregation between 1998 and 2017, who reported last May that he was abused by priests in Chile and another religious of the same order in Spain where she was for a time
"I was sexually abused by a nun in Spain who was also Chilean and senior to me, many times and many times. And everyone knew and they silenced me, " Gómez said on this occasion.
" They made me feel that I was guilty of everything . But now I understand that it's a story I've lived, it's mine, and that I'm not the only one, "he added, in statements at the gate Emol
the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, sent by Pope Francis to Chile to listen to the victims of abuse in the Church, but said that so far, they have received no official response to his denunciations.
Scicluna's visit, which was repeated last June, marked a change in the Pope's attitude. against the abuses in Chile and opened a stage of changes that until now has meant the acceptance of the resignations of five bishops, who according to experts on the subject, They will add others.
At the same time, the Chilean prosecutor's office informed on Monday that 158 clergy-related persons were or had been the subject of an investigation since 2000 in cases of sexual abuse against 266 victims, including 178 minors
Among those questioned by the public prosecutor, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, archbishop of Santiago, must be declared a camouflage on 21 August.
In the same case, a former chancellor of Óscar Muñoz, Archdiocese of Santiago, is in preventive prison, accused of sexual abuse and estupro
The Chilean branch of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan was founded in 1987 by Irene García de Prado, Spanish nun who died last year in Molina, oriented towards the care of the elderly and the sick, who live there and receive care for free. ( EFE )
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