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An agreement for impunity. Thus, the Bolivian community of pedophilia survivors defines the draft of the agreement between the sinta headquarters and the Plurinational State of Bolivia that both parties plan to sign soon. There are several articles that, in the event that they are approved, will negatively affect the victims of sexual abuse in the clerical sphere and the future investigations of justice in these cases. Everything revolves around the commitment of the Bolivian State to protect ecclesiastical archives. That is, the cards and documents of transfers of pedophiles that have so far served will be inaccessible. Access to clerical records has allowed, among other issues, that reports, published by this newspaper, which in turn promoted a reform of the regulations on the prescription in the country and that the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office initiated an ex officio investigation against these crimes. In those secret archives, the police found evidence of how the Spanish Jesus company protected several pedophiles and transferred as missionaries with the knowledge and permission of the general curia of the Order in Rome. The Association of Victims on Wednesday has sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Parliament, the Senate and the President of the Government, Luis Arce, where they are urged “to renegotiate this framework based on principles of transparency, equity and protection of human rights.”
Thus it is contemplated in the draft agreement, to which this newspaper has had access: “The Plurinational State of Bolivia recognizes, protects and respects the inviolability of the archives, records and documents relevant to the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, to the Episcopal Curias, to the curies of the superior of the institutes and companies of consecrated life and the other organisms, entities and dependencies of the Catholic Church”. The Victims Association has published a statement this Thursday to lash out at the Concordat. “The Government would be putting an impassable wall to investigate and clarify complaints of sexual abuse and others perpetrated by any of its members. Religious congregations have used their curies to hide, incurring covering up, evidence of ecclesial sexual abuse,” says the note.
The association recalls that, thanks to the investigation of the country, the Prosecutor’s Office perpetrated by a dozen pedophiles. Among which are the Spanish Jesuits Alfonso Pedrajas, Lucho Roma, Luis Tó, Francesc Peris, Antonio Gausset and Francesc Roma. All are cases unstapped exclusively by this newspaper. “Is the State to facilitate the tests against pedophiles unpunished in religious life entities? Submission of a state-colonial state to a state-colony without dignity,” adds the statement of the Bolivian community of survivors.
The possible signature of the agreement collides with the declaration of intentions of President Arce when the scandal of the in May 2023 broke Review ”of the agreements with the Holy See. Francisco did not send any document and in the draft of the new Concordat, the Plurinational State, far from putting obstacles on this issue, offers facilities: “The bishops may invite ordered ministers, consecrated faithful and foreigners to provide pastoral services in their respective ecclesiastical jurisdictions. For this purpose, the Bolivian authorities will grant them the corresponding permanence, the corresponding visions, the corresponding visions, the corresponding visions, the corresponding visions, facilities for the entry and exit, In addition to the exception of the payment of migratory fees ”.
The victims also propose that the article on the secret of confession be changed, so that it is lifted in “the crimes indicated in the national legal system, particularly those of child sexual abuse and against vulnerable persons, in which case the religious order and the religious order must be imposed, as is provided for in the legislation, the obligation to denounce”. In the same way, they ask that the parts of the text be modified to “demand that all personnel of the Catholic Church, especially related to the education of children, elders and vulnerable people, present, mandatory, criminal history and approve psychological expertise of the State, before their incorporation is authorized, to avoid sexual abuse”. It should be noted that most cases in Bolivia happen in schools and committed by clergymen who worked as teachers or exercised as alleged nurses.
