Near Toulouse. Sexual touching: a priest targeted by an internal investigation
Through Laurent Derne
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“Waiting for the outcome of [l’enquête canonique]father M. relieved of his responsibilities in community government. In a press release published on Tuesday January 24, 2023 on its website, the Community of the Beatitudes de Blagnac (Haute-Garonne), testifies to the affair which shakes this religious congregation created near Toulouse in 1973, and which radiates throughout the world, according to France Blue.
The Archbishop of Toulouse wants to shed light
The facts have become public since the Archbishop of Toulouse, Mg Guy de Kerimellaunched an internal investigation following alleged sexual touching committed by the number two of the congregation, between 1994 and 2001.
The facts were framed by the community ofOthery (Vosges), which welcomed college and high school students aspiring to become priests. An establishment closed for 15 years.
A minor invited to share the bed of the priest?
It is following the investigation baptized “Under influence”, published in The Cross The Weekly, that these facts have come to the surface. The priest now 56 years oldwould have invited a minor from the boarding school to share his bed. Moved gestures and kisses on the mouth bonus ?
In 2004, the Epinal public prosecutor’s office (Vosges) concluded the case with a dismissal. A second salvo of investigations had led to the same result, in 2010.internal investigation induced by the Archbishop of Toulouse intervenes in a context, heavy and recurrent, of sexual business revelations within the Catholic Church.
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