Eight victims accuse Josep Vendrell Cortasa, now deceased, of sexual abuse of minors between 1970 and 1975A case of pedophilia that might have an effect on round twenty individuals from numerous cities in BarcelonaThe Ombudsman has already collected some complaints and the testimony of 25 individuals
Eight individuals have accused the priest Josep Vendrell Cortasa, now deceased, of sexual abuse of minors dedicated between 1970 and 1975 in Caldes d’Estrac (Barcelona), a brand new case of pedophilia that might have an effect on no less than twenty individuals in a number of cities in Barcelona, based on info revealed this Saturday by the newspaper El País, TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio.
The Archdiocese of Barcelona, for its half, has revealed an announcement, by which it regrets that it has not been supplied with contact with the victims with a view to begin the canonical course of that, based on sources from the archdiocese have indicated to EFE, may be carried out if there’s a grievance and with out a time restrict, as a result of, though the defendant is deceased, these circumstances don’t prescribe, not like what occurs in strange justice.
“With every thing – the assertion provides – we wish to reiterate our condemnation of any kind of abuse, particularly these dedicated by members of the Church.”
The newspaper El País collects the testimony of six former college students of Josep Vendrell, who died in 2004 on the age of 70, and who guarantee that “a whole era of kids” from Caldes d’Estrac was marked in these years after passing by way of the boarding faculty of which the priest was director.
Vendrell had additionally been in control of the parish of Santo Tomas de Aquino in Barcelona, between 1965 and 1970 and, based on this newspaper, for 3 many years he was in numerous locations with out the complaints of the households being heard.
The Ombudsman has already collected some complaints and the testimony of 25 individuals who may have been victims of this priest.