• Argentina La "Casita de Dios": harsh sentences to those responsible for a hell of sexual abuse of deaf and dumb people

The Italian priest

Nicola Corradi,

sentenced in 2019 by the Argentine justice to 42 years in prison for sexual abuse and rape of deaf children in a boarding school, died this Wednesday

at the age of 84 in Mendoza

(west), the Judicial branch of that province reported .

The priest was serving

house arrest due to his age

and health problems.

In 2019, an Argentine court had found Corradi guilty along with the Argentine priest

Horacio Corbacho,

sentenced to 45 years in prison.

In addition, the gardener of the educational center Armando Gómez received a sentence of 18 years in prison.

The justice considered

25 cases of abuse and rape of children between the ages of 4 and 17

committed between 2004 and 2016 at the Instituto de Enseñanza Próvolo de Mendoza.

The testimonies of 13 victims were evaluated.

It was considered as an

aggravating factor

that the priests were responsible for the care of the boys and ministers of worship, as well as the fact that the victims were minors and that they lived with their abusers in the boarding school.

El Próvolo de Mendoza was closed in 2016 as a result of the scandal.

"Corradi died, a person who could be tried and sentenced for the abuses committed in Mendoza. We are satisfied because we were able to show the world who was perhaps the

most pedophile

representative of the Catholic Church

of all time,"

said

Ariel Lizarraga,

Daiana's father , the first complainant.

"But for the survivors of the Próvolo it is a stage overcome in part, since

the scars survive," he

added.

After the trial, a group of victims

traveled to the Vatican in February 2020

with the intention of demanding justice and reparation for the horror they experienced, but Pope Francis did not receive them.

"Divine justice"

"Now there is divine justice and Corradi will have to

render full accounts and report on the abuses in Italy and La Plata

and who knows how many more," added Lizarraga.

Corradi had arrived in Argentina in 1970 from the Próvolo in Verona (Italy) and took over the institution, first in La Plata (60 km south of Buenos Aires) and then, in 1998, in Mendoza, where he was detained preventively by the November 26, 2016.

In 2009, he had been

reported to the Vatican for sexually abusing deaf children in Verona.

Other complaints in La Plata for abuses between 1982 and 1991 weighed on him.

The Próvolo institute was dedicated to teaching children with hearing disabilities or language disorders and used to be

recommended as one of the best.

In May 2021, a second trial derived from the same case began, in which

the Japanese nuns Kumiko Kosaka (46 years) and Paraguayan Asunción Martínez (53)

are

accused, in

addition to the legal representative of Próvolo, a psychologist, a cook and four directors of the institution.

Kosaka is the most committed and faces charges for aggravated sexual abuse, corruption of minors and primary participant by omission (who due to his role should have known about the crimes and denounced them), while the rest, for corruption of minors and participation by omission (for do not report).

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