What is known about the minor abused in Córdoba by a priest - Other Cities - Colombia

The priest Carlos José Carvajal Galvis, former parish priest of the La Inmaculada church, in the municipality of San Bernardo del Viento (Córdoba), is still a fugitive from justice. who is prosecuted as alleged sexual abuser of a 13-year-old adolescent, whom he would have left pregnant and later forced to abort.

The priest has a valid arrest warrant.

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“With the support of the Ombudsman, the case has already been placed in the hands of a victims’ lawyer. We are promoting the psychosocial support of the EPS to the minor and her family, ”Ricardo Madera, Ombudsman for the department of Córdoba, told EL TIEMPO.

The parents of the victim denounced the aberrant case, after finding out that her little girl, who was a volunteer in the services of the Church La Inmaculadawould have been abused by the religious on several occasions.

“The Diocese of Montería reiterates its policy of good treatment with all people and its zero tolerance against all kinds of abuse in any ecclesial environment,” said the communication signed by the priest Uriel Pipper Algarín, communications delegate of the Diocese of Montería.

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What appeared to be the first menstrual cramps in the 13-year-old adolescent led the parents to a medical evaluation of the girl, in which it was shown that she had had an abortion. What followed was a painful confession by the girl about the aberrant practices to which Father Carlos José Carvajal Galvis subjected her.

“A preliminary investigation will begin after the issuance of an episcopal decree and precautionary measures were issued to remove the priest accused of sexual abuse from the exercise of the Priestly Ministry,” the Diocese of Montería said in a press release.

The priest Carvajal Galvis had resigned from his duties as professor of religion

Until now, the aforementioned father has not been located and his whereabouts are unknown.

The minor’s family, with the support of the Ombudsman’s Office, filed complaints with the Prosecutor’s Office.

“We have asked the authorities as quickly as possible to allow the capture of this man to bring him before the judicial authorities,” said Madera.

By then, the priest Carvajal Galvis had already resigned from his duties as a religion teacher at a school in San Bernardo del Viento.

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“Until now, the aforementioned father has not been located and his whereabouts are unknown.”, adds the Diocese of Montería.

John Montano
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Quindío: Young woman was abused by five men when she was walking with her boyfriend - Other Cities - Colombia

A case of rape that occurred last Saturday in a neighborhood in the municipality of Pijao, Quindío, generated outrage among the inhabitants of this town, who scheduled a march for this Tuesday.

According to the lawyer and social leader of the municipality, Maryi Torres, it is a peaceful protest because “if they touch one, they touch us all. We are too small a municipality and we are going through acts of violence.”

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Last Saturday, a 22-year-old girl was raped and beaten by 5 men in a wooded area of ​​the Morroseco neighborhood of Pijao. The woman was with her boyfriend, who was also beaten at the scene.

The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and threatened her and told her they were going to kill her boyfriend

“This is a very small municipality and all the people became aware of the case because the young woman was taken to the hospital. The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and they threatened her and told her that they were going to kill her boyfriend. They called them by their names, but the victims say they don’t know these 5 people,” Torres said.

The social leader added that, fortunately, they were not killed, when all this was happening, a young man from the municipality was passing by, he began to shout and the community left their houses and the men fled to the rural area.

Due to these events and others that have been known in recent weeks, several people joined and called for this peaceful protest that seeks to draw the attention of the departmental and national authorities to take action and provide protection to the population.

“In the municipality things have been presented that go unpunished, as it is such a hidden town, everyone is silent, if we had not called the march, no one would know what happened. A few days ago in the Santa Teresita institution they put young people from eleventh to take care of third grade children and from there some videos came out where the young people supposedly offered the girls money to kiss each other”.

The commander of the Quindío Police, Colonel Jorge Mauro Córdoba, said that the attention route for the abused young woman has already been prioritized, but “there is a reservation in this case and I cannot refer to it, but the timely attention was made. In the issue of public order in this municipality, we have been capturing people who commit thefts on farms and crimes in this municipality in the mountains”.

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Young woman was abused by five men when she was walking with her boyfriend in Quindío - Other Cities - Colombia

A case of rape that occurred last Saturday in a neighborhood in the municipality of Pijao, Quindío, generated outrage among the inhabitants of this town, who scheduled a march for this Tuesday.

According to the lawyer and social leader of the municipality, Maryi Torres, it is a peaceful protest because “if they touch one, they touch us all. We are too small a municipality and we are going through acts of violence.”

Last Saturday, a 22-year-old girl was raped and beaten by 5 men in a wooded area of ​​the Morroseco neighborhood of Pijao. The woman was with her boyfriend, who was also beaten at the scene.

The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and threatened her and told her they were going to kill her boyfriend

“This is a very small municipality and all the people became aware of the case because the young woman was taken to the hospital. The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and they threatened her and told her that they were going to kill her boyfriend. They called them by their names, but the victims say they don’t know these 5 people,” Torres said.

The social leader added that, fortunately, they were not killed, when all this was happening, a young man from the municipality was passing by, he began to shout and the community left their houses and the men fled to the rural area.

Due to these events and others that have been known in recent weeks, several people joined and called for this peaceful protest that seeks to draw the attention of the departmental and national authorities to take action and provide protection to the population.

“In the municipality things have been presented that go unpunished, as it is such a hidden town, everyone is silent, if we had not called the march, no one would know what happened. A few days ago in the Santa Teresita institution they put young people from eleventh to take care of third grade children and from there some videos came out where the young people supposedly offered the girls money to kiss each other”.

The commander of the Quindío Police, Colonel Jorge Mauro Córdoba, said that the attention route for the abused young woman has already been prioritized, but “there is a reservation in this case and I cannot refer to it, but the timely attention was made. In the issue of public order in this municipality, we have been capturing people who commit thefts on farms and crimes in this municipality in the mountains”.

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Villavicencio: priests would have abused at least 38 children - Other Cities - Colombia

An order from Pope Francis led two women in the country to uncover an alleged pederasty network in Villavicencio with 38 named aggressors.

In 2019, Bishop Óscar Urbina was left in charge, for request of the supreme pontiff, to investigate possible sexual abuse committed by priests. The prelate leaned on Olga Cristancho (68 years old) and Socorro Martínez (59): the first, a seasoned ex-prosecutor and the other, a former official from the Attorney General’s Office with experience in investigating massacres.

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Soon after, the women left Urbina with the suspicion that he was covering up for the priests, and they set out to investigate on their own. “It never crossed my mind” what he would discover, Cristancho confesses to AFP in an interview. Would at least 20 victims.

The scandal grew with the book ‘This is the Lamb of God’ by journalist Juan Pablo Barrientos, who delved into the findings of the two researchers and last year published the testimonies and clues that compromise 38 priests of the Archdiocese of Villavicencio in abusive acts or carnal access.

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The Church discreetly separated 20 of them and two more are in prison. Some are singled out for even induce one of the victims into “prostitution”Father William Prieto confirmed to AFP.

“It will be up to the courts, both civil and canonical, to give a verdict,” adds the spokesman for the Archdiocese. The Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, declined to speak about the processes that affect the Church.

some of the cases

The investigation began by order of Pope Francis.

In Villavicencio, Cristancho keeps a plaster Virgin Mary in the garden of his house. She still feels “shocked” by the abuses she helped expose. As a prosecutor she had unmasked Luis Alfredo Garavitothe largest sexual predator and murderer of minors in the country with about 172 victims.

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Retired, she accepted Bishop Urbina’s invitation. He told me to “comply with very specific and very important guidelines that His Holiness had givenevokes

Along with his partner, he compiled the “evidence” in the style of ‘Spotlight’, the award-winning film that reconstructs the journalistic investigation in the United States on pedophile priests. She remembers with emotion one of the victims who told him how the priests rotated it from the 15 years.

Between them they handled a password, “which was a CD (compact disc)”. One said to another “there I send you that CD, but (in reality) it was like ‘there I send that boy that you can make him an offer (…) and he will surely accept it because of the needs he has’ “, he recounts.

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The two women sent the Vatican the results of their investigations, and are still awaiting a response. Under the same papal directive, the Church in France revealed that some 216,000 minors were victims of priests between 1950 and 2020.

one of the victims

Miguel (not his real name) used to spend his vacations in Villavicencio as a child. He remembers that his family liked him to go to the parish house where his priestly uncle lived. There was the abuser of him, a seminarian who manipulated him to make or receive fellatio.

“He knew how to manage trust with my uncle, trust with my family, so that I would go (…) to the sheets” with him, he tells AFP, hiding his face.

As an adult, while studying law, he understood that his memories were those of abuse. He fell into “shock”. At 26 years old, he abhors aggression. He had, he says, “ultraviolent attitudes” and depressive symptoms. He filed a complaint with the Archdiocese without receiving a response. “I wanted to end my life, I couldn’t find a reason (…) I felt dirty,” he adds. AFP tried unsuccessfully to contact Bishop Urbina by phone and WhatsApp.

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Socorro Martínez, the former prosecutor’s investigative partner, avoid going to the cathedral that he visited every Sunday. “I practically don’t go out anywhere,” she lets out fearfully. One of her children received a call in which they told her that her mother was a “sapa”.

“They [los miembros del arzobispado] they do consider me their enemy, because I revealed that information (…) We were the stone in the shoe, “adds the penalist.
On January 27, Martínez and Cristancho testified before a prosecutor investigating these sexual assaults. So far only one of the victims, abused when she was a 13-year-old altar boyfound justice. A priest and a seminarian pay jail for this case.

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Some priests involved in the plot have unsuccessfully filed seven legal actions to remove Barrientos’ book from circulation. “They admit nothing, deny everything (…) there is no justice, there is no truth, there is no reparation,” laments the journalist who dared to remove the secrets of the Church.

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