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The priest Óscar Muñoz Toledo, 56, of the Archdiocese of Chile, was arrested on Thursday for seven cases of sexual abuse against minors.
Last May, the OG Higgins Regional Prosecutor's Office by Emiliano Arias opened an investigation against him, after revealing the facts that allegedly affected four children, but to date the cases totaled Sept.
Muñoz, who was also pastor of the Church of Jesus of Nazareth in the area of Santiago de Estación Central, was self-declared for abuses before the Pastoral of Complaints and was separated from his position last January, two weeks before Pope Francis' visit to Chile
The Facts
Early 2002, the victims were between 11 and 17 years old. Five abused minors are nephews of religious, another corresponds to one of his acolytes and the rest is a young man who was abused in the city of Rancagua in 2004.
A that time, Muñoz was the person in charge of receiving complaints in the archdiocese of Santiago about sexual abuse cases in the church and was also a direct adviser to the cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, chief of the archdiocese.
When asked about the issue, Ezzati assured reporters that the church "has the readiness to collaborate with justice in everything". He added that the arrest of his collaborator is "a great suffering, for him, for his family and for the victims."
"A very close and cordial thought to the victims who suffered from these abuses, the desire is for justice to have the last voice" the prelate closed. Last June, the Office of the Prosecutor ordered the seizure of documents and computers in the bishopric of the city of Rancagua and in front of the ecclesiastical court of Santiago
(Information of the. EFE)
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