• Research: The Montserrat report considers the monk Andreu Soler a "sexual predator and a pedophile"
  • Investigation: Montserrat Monastery denies that it covers up abuses and maintains that it helped the victim

The abbot of Montserrat, Josep Maria Soler, has apologized for the sexual abuse of minors committed by religious of the monastery - verified by the commission of investigation on abuses in the community - and has admitted that the mechanisms of prevention and control failed ", in his homily this Sunday.

Soler said that they endorse the report of the commission of inquiry published on Friday, which concluded that the monk Andreu Soler - against which they received 12 complaints - was "a sexual predator and a pedophile," and that he found two accusations of abuses against the head of the Escolanía between 1960 and 1968.

"Therefore, I want to express, in the name of the brothers of the community, our dismay in knowing the evil that was done to the victims of the abuses," he said.

The abbot has condemned any type of abuse of minors and has expressed his "commitment to firmly fight against such a serious problem that affects our entire society," as the monastery already said in a statement on Friday after the report of the commission.

He has repeated, "if possible with more intensity than last February 3", his request for forgiveness to the victims and their families, and has expressed the willingness of the community of Montserrat to be available and accompany them in their suffering and recovery , if they want it.

It has also pledged to improve and increase "in a short term" the child protection mechanisms that already exist in Montserrat.

Abbot Soler was one of the members of the monastic community interviewed by the commission of inquiry , constituted on January 24 and composed of the lawyer Cristina Vallejo, the doctor Xavier Pomés and the psychologist Begoña Elizalde, with participation, with voice and without vote , from the spokesman of the monastery, Bernat Juliol.

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