MEXICO CITY -- A judge in the central Mexico state of Puebla ordered a Roman Catholic priest to stand trial in the rape of a 9-year-old boy in 1999, Mexican daily Reforma reported Saturday.
The judge, Emma Peralta, was not immediately available to confirm the ruling issued Friday. About 50 parishioners gathered outside the court building to support jailed priest Rafael Perez Sanchez, who was arrested on Sept. 30 in the community of San Rafael Tlanalapan, where he officiated.
A person who answered the phone at the offices of the Archdiocese of Puebla said no one was immediately available to comment on the charges.
Mexican law does not permit bail for those accused of serious crimes; rape is punishable by prison terms of eight to 40 years.
Perez Sanchez, whose age was not given, is accused in the rape of a minor at the priest's residence over the Christmas holidays in 1999.
The boy's mother and father were good friends with Perez, and as a result, the minor initially was afraid to tell them what happened, police said. He finally did in 2003, and his parents immediately filed a complaint. A judge did not issue an arrest warrant until last year.
Perez's detention comes amid a similar scandal involving a second Mexican priest from Puebla, the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar. A 25-year-old Mexican man has accused Aguilar of raping him when he was a teenager in 1994. The priest also has been charged in California with 19 felony counts of committing lewd acts on a child. He is still at large.
His alleged Mexican victim, Joaquin Aguilar Mendez, also filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 19 accusing Mexican Roman Catholic Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony of conspiring to protect the Rev. Aguilar. Both cardinals have denied the accusations.
Is this why the Roman Catholic Church wants illegal aliens to stay?
2006-10-10 16:28:41 · 9 answers · asked by Zoe 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Back at you Carol R Oh I mean geek 49203 stop point gaining
2006-10-10 16:36:25 · update #1
Yes, the highest catholic official in Mexico, a cardinal, has been accused of granting protection to a pedophile. Thanks for bringing that up here in this forum, we need all the world to know what a farse the Mexican Roman Catholic Apostolic Church is.
2006-10-10 16:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by zap 5 · 4⤊ 6⤋
All those catholic priests are nothing but a bunch of child molesters! Just goes to show what a bunch of hypocrites all of them are. And all the illegals are catholic, so what does that make THEM! No wonder there are so many child molesters who are illegals!
2006-10-11 05:49:36 · answer #2 · answered by sqwirl_hater 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, my aunt is a catholic nun. The will cloth the sick, poor, and people who commit crimes whether they are illegal or not. They are the biggest care takers of HIV patients. Catholics dont hide illegals like the methodist church in chicago. I guarantee that the priest hiding the illegal in the church will marry her in a year or so. They will claim it was for her to stay in the country.
2006-10-10 16:34:16 · answer #3 · answered by circusdejojo 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Poser
2006-10-10 17:35:58 · answer #4 · answered by vicente fox 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm with you Zoe but its not new,its just more reported now than before.Theses perverts are all over and they all need to be castrated then shot.
2006-10-11 03:42:28 · answer #5 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow like American priests have obstained from keeping their hands off of choir boys. Quit grasping at straws and wake up.
2006-10-10 16:31:16 · answer #6 · answered by Tegeras 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Wrong headline, this is not a new type of pedophile, the classic kind, and of course protected by "THE CHURCH"
2006-10-10 16:31:19 · answer #7 · answered by soulsearcher 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
that's an isolated incident whats your point...most pedophiles are middle aged white men that's a fact.
2006-10-10 16:43:46 · answer #8 · answered by hayleyluv 1 · 5⤊ 1⤋
flagged for abuse, etc.
2006-10-10 16:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by geek49203 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋