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Santiago, Chile
A group of nuns who left the Catholic Church reported having been "for years" sexually abused by priests and ignored by the authorities Clerics of the Congregation " Sisters of the Good Samaritan ", in the Chilean region of Maule, according to information published by a local television.
Addressing the journalistic research program "Special Report", broadcast Tuesday night by the Chilean Public Television Network (TVN), the religious claimed to have been also victims of abuse of Work in the convent located in the municipality of Molina, 210 kilometers south of Santiago.
They added that after denouncing the abuses to his superiors, they were punished and expelled from the congregation without any compensation.
Yolanda Tondreaux, one of them, said to have been abused as soon as I used the habits: " A priest approached me, m & rsquo; Touched my chest and kissed me on the face, reaching my lips "
" He patted me . He miffed me He added, adding that he immediately went to visit his mother Patricia Ibarra and that he was telling what had happened, but she, far from helping her, called her a "liar" and ordered her to confess with the same priest denounced
. "The girls left the convent for the same reason, because there were priests who caressed them ", said Tondreaux in the Chilean media report
She claimed to have seen during her life as a nun up to 20 million pesos (about $ 30,700 at the current rate) to priests who were the object of abuse complaints.
Rather, she was part of a group of 23 sisters who were expelled from the congregation without any financial compensation for reporting abuse.
Another ex-monk, Eliana Macías, reported that in addition to suffering and witnessing the nuns 'petitions, she saw a priest entering the nuns' chambers to perform reprehensible acts or to see them. in 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. "
Consuelo Gómez also spoke about the program, also religious of the same congregation between 1998 and 2017, which last May reported being abused by priests in Chile and by another religious the same order in Spain, where she was for a while.
"I was sexually abused by a nun in Spain, who was also Chilean and superior to me, many times and repeatedly. And everyone knew it and they silenced me, "said Gómez at that time
" They made me feel that I was guilty of everything. But now I have understood that it's a story I've lived, which is mine, and that I'm not the only one, "he adds in statements to Emol's portal.
The religious claims to have declared in January last before 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 until Now, they have not received any official response to their complaints.
Scicluna's visit, which was repeated last June, It 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, will be joined by others. [19659004AtthesametimetheChileanprosecutor'sofficeinformedonMondaythat158peoplerelatedtotheclergyweredoingorwereobjectingandaninvestigationsince2000intosexualabusecasesagainst266victimsincluding178minors
Among those questioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago, was called to testify as a cover on 21 August.
In the same case, a former Chancellor of the Santiago Archdiocese, Óscar Muñoz is in pre-trial detention, accused of sexual abuse and rape.
The Chilean branch of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan was founded in 1987 by Irene García de Prado, a Spanish nun who died last year in Molina. caring for the elderly and the sick, who live there and receive care free of charge. EFE
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