Brescia, parish priest arrested for sexual violence on minors

At the Mass of last January 5, a San Paoloa town in the province of Brescia, had been read to the faithful a letter from Bishop Pierantonio Tremolada. The parish priest settled for just three months, he left: «Unfortunately, situations and critical issues that advise to immediately interrupt his experience in your parish communities immediately emerged. The loss that this decision causes in all of you faithful is understandable. The parish priest has put his mandate back in order to continue his personal journey more freedom».

Everything started from the story of a boy to an educator: he would have told her to have received from the parish priest of the “particular attention”. From the investigation of the police who detected the abuse and found precedents of alleged sexual violence against minors.

Don Ciro Panigara He is under house arrest on charges of sexual violence aggravated by the minor age of the victims. Reports theHandle which, in addition to the episode that led to the resignation, others relating to 2011 to 2013 are contested to the priest when he was in a parish in Adro, Franciacorta. The alleged victims also the cases would have been minor that had been entrusted to him for the performance of parish activities. According to reports the Corriere della Sera In addition to the parishes mentioned, it was moved to others: collaborator chaplain to the polymbulance of Brescia until 2016 (“The experience with the sick made me grow a lot,” he said), Vicar in the dioceses of Leno, Milzanello and Porzano, parish priest of Visano.

«I took the shock from God and entered the seminaryHe told, the Milanese newspaper always writes it when he had the vocation. Originally from Ghedi he studied as an electrician. “I am happy to be a priest,” he told Leno, “I feel welcomed in Leno, it is a community that I like very much: hot people who love priests. I was missing the pastoral care of the families, it is a new thing: there is a climate of sharing, it is a beautiful experience. I have great enthusiasm for this new adventure of mine ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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