He has arrested her in Torremolinos to a priest of the Archdiocese of Toledo for a crime against public health. The priest was on vacation in the when he was surprised on Monday in the middle of the street with a dozen paper of various narcotic substances, including pink cocaine. In, the Archbishopric of Toledo has lamented the facts and has expressed his willingness to collaborate with justice. He has also reported that he has opened an investigation to clarify the facts and has departed from the exercise of the ministry to the religious, which has already been made available.
The events occurred during the early hours of September 22 in Torremolinos. As reported by the National Police, the 45 -year -old man went through a routine police control. Then ten paperin were found with “various narcotic substances.” Among them, and as reveals Malaga todaythere was pink cocaine, synthetic drugs also known as Tusi. The detainee, according to police sources, It is Carlos Loriente. Until September 15, it was the episcopal vicar for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Toledo, but the week was dismissed and Miguel Garrigós Domínguez was named in its place surprisingly.
The drug that carried when identified exceeded “an amount that could be understood as destined for own consumption,” according to the police statement, which led the agents to their arrest and the subsequent record of the holiday floor where he was housed during his stay in this municipality of the Costa del Sol. On the floor a new bag was found with drugs of drugs and a precision balance. Later, the arrested was made available to the Court of Instruction 5 of Torremolinos as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health.
The Archbishopric of Toledo has issued a statement on Tuesday confirming the arrest of a priest of the archdiocese – without identifying it – and emphasizes that he has opened an investigation to know what happened and has “separated in the exercise of the ministry and his trade” to the arrest. The Archbishop has insisted that “deeply regrets the facts that have caused the arrest and reunounts any criminal behavior that could allegedly commit the priest” and has expressed “his full confidence in justice.”
In addition, although it considers that the responsibility of the facts corresponds to the personal sphere of the detainee, he has expressed his willingness to collaborate with the authorities. “This archbishopric apologizes to the people of God for the moral damages that may cause the alleged crimes of a priest of the archdiocese,” concludes the statement.
Incident in the diocese during a trial by pedophilia
Loriente starred in 2023 an incident in a well -known cases of abuse of minors of the Diocese of Toledo, in 2021, while the trial was held at the León Audience. This is the process to the priest Pedro Rodríguez Ramos, in 2023, by defects in the initial instruction and now pending the Supreme decision. The priest now detained in Torremolinos then spread a WhatsApp message in which he was in defense of the defendant, with whom he had friendship, criticized the former seminaminarist who denounced the abuses and attacked the press. Therefore, the victim filed a complaint at the Vatican in November 2023, accusing him of defamation and slander.
In his message, Loriente spoke of the “lack of likelihood” of the complaint and defended that his “subjective conviction is Peter’s innocence.” He pointed to his “kindness of heart” and that he had “a profile not compatible with that of an abuser.” He also considered that they could not “judge with the current sensitivity issues of almost two decades ago.” “The infamous media pressure that has been exerted on the instructor and the prosecuting court is illegal and could even cover criminal dyes,” he warned.
The complainant of the abuse then sent a letter, to whom this newspaper has had access, to the prefect of the Dicasterio for the clergy of the Holy See, and denounced Loriente “for slander, issuance and distribution of falsehood, thus abusing his power and authority.” Using his position, he accuses the document, “he spread a letter massively to the clergy, through WhatsApp that ended in the hands of the press and my environment, constituting criminal acts,” according to the Vatican standards. He quoted article 1.1b of the papal document You are the light of the world: “The behaviors of the subjects of article 6, consisting of actions or omissions aimed at interfering or avoiding civil or canonical, administrative or criminal investigations.” The former Seminarist also informed Cardinal Sean O’Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and, by letter, to Pope Francis in May 2023.
However, after almost two years, the affected person has not yet had an answer to his complaint and the Vatican never took measures against the priest. Actually, it is another episode in the very long battle of this young man against the silence of the Church and the cover -up of the case that has denounced in the high spheres of the Archdiocese of Toledo. , after meeting with the victim: he ordered the archbishopric of Toledo to canonically process the priest accused of abuse, since he had spent 15 years since the complainant had informed them of the case; Four since the Holy See officially had knowledge of him and two since the affected himself denounced him directly in the Dicastery of Doctrine of Faith, Vatican Disciplinary Organ. He has not yet obtained responses to his complaints or a judgment of the Catholic Church on the case.
