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January 29, 2020 Alleged sexual and psychological abuse of minors. This is the hypothesis according to which the Prato prosecutor's office opened an investigation involving 9 religious of the former community 'Disciples of the Annunciation' suppressed by the Vatican in December after a canonical visit. The Nation writes it today.

The alleged victims of abuse and psychological violence would be 2 brothers, minors at the time of the events, entrusted by the parents to the community. From their stories the investigation would be born

The suspects would be 5 priests, a friar and 3 religious.

The bishop of Prato Giovanni Nerbini, last December, had gone to the prosecutor's office to report some facts of which he had come to know about the former religious community of the "Disciples of the Annunciation",

A note from the Diocese of Prato states that since the installation of Bishop Nerbini, which took place in September 2019, a canonical criminal investigation had also started against some members of the former religious community. Investigation that is still ongoing

The suppression, desired by the Holy See, of the association of faithful 'Disciples of the Annunciation' in Prato, at the center of investigations had been adopted for "serious failings regarding the charism and the development of religious life within the community, as well as from the failure of the members ". The Diocese of Prato remembers it in the note, explaining that the provision had been "taken by the Vatican Congregation for religious life before and independently of the initiation of the canonical criminal procedure and investigations by the Prato prosecutor". It had been the same Diocese a few weeks ago to have given the news of the suppression.

The bishop of Prato, Monsignor Giovanni Nerbini, expresses "full confidence in the judiciary and continues to offer investigators a wide collaboration of the Diocese".

"I do not hide my pain and my lively concern and I would like to hope that the charges made are not true, but I want to clearly say - says Monsignor Nerbini - that the first interest that the Church of Prato has is that of seeking the truth. For this reason I hope that the judiciary, in the interest of all, will lead to the end of the investigation as soon as possible ".