Legion of Christ accused abuser removed from priesthood

MEXICO CITY — The Catholic Church has removed Mexican Fernando Martínez from the priesthood after desirous about him responsible of tons of sexual abuse crimes against minors, the Legion of Christ non secular affirm mentioned Monday.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith determined that Martínez would possibly maybe per chance no longer continue his priestly responsibilities, however allowed him to live as a member of the Legion of Christ and the church, a decision that upset his victims.

One in every of them, Ana Lucía Salazar, who had reported being raped by the priest when she used to be 8 years extinct, commented with irony on Twitter.

“The Pope determined that the gentleman continue within the church ranks after raping youth,” Salazar wrote Monday. “There is zero tolerance.” The punishment comes on the topic of three decades after the abuses had been reported to Martínez’s superiors within the 1990s.

The Legion used to be basically based in Mexico in 1941 by Marcial Maciel. Experiences of abuses by its people were emerging for decades. In 2010, after Maciel’s death, the Vatican instituted a reform process following an investigation that showed its founder had created a machine of energy per sexual abuse, silence, deception and obedience that allowed him to steer a double lifestyles “devoid of any scruples and real sense of religion.”

In December, the Legion made public a document that known 33 monks and 71 seminarians who sexually abused minors all through the past 80 years. A Third of those cited, alongside side Martínez, had been additionally victims of Maciel.

In November, the Legion released a document about Martínez that spoke of abuses that started in 1969 in Mexico City and persisted through the 1990s. Situations were reported publicly as no longer too long ago as final year and include abuse of girls between the ages of 6 and 8 at the Instituto Cumbres in Cancun. Salazar used to be a kind of cases.

A chronic complaint of the victims of clerical abuse has been the dearth of criminal sanctions against the abusers and those that lined up the abuse.Pope Francishas insisted that the church isn’t any longer going to tolerate such conduct.

Martínez is for the time being in Rome and till now had been allowed to continue within the priesthood despite the truth that no longer performing responsibilities in public.

The Legion’s announcement comes every week sooner than its management holds its total assembly.