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PAEDOPHILE

Man arrested over attack on daughter’s stalker

A man who used a cane to severely injure a "paedophile" who sent pornographic text messages to his underage daughter has been arrested in Langreo, northern Spain.

Published: 17 October 2013 18:17 CEST
Man arrested over attack on daughter's stalker
The furious father phoned up police before the attack to inform them where he would be confronting the “paedophile”. Photo: Garry Knight

The furious father phoned up police before the attack to inform them where he would be confronting the “paedophile”.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found the alleged sexual predator on the ground and bleeding profusely, online daily El Correo reported on Thursday.

The aggressor handed police the cane he had used as a weapon and the victim’s phone for them to see the texts he had been sending the underage girl with their own eyes.

The girl’s father told police his daughter had been psychologically affected by the text messages the man had sent her and decided to “have a word with him”.

The offender, who had numerous fractures and bruises on his head and face, told police it was the first time he’d done anything like it and that it wouldn’t happen again.

Both men were arrested and are awaiting trial. 

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ABUSE

Catholic church in Valais rocked by new sex abuse claims

Accusations of historic sexual abuse have been made against around ten Catholic priests in the bishopric of Sion in the canton of Valais.

Published: 4 January 2018 10:02 CET
Catholic church in Valais rocked by new sex abuse claims
Photo: lightpoet/Depositphotos

The bishop of Sion, Jean-Marie Lovey, has asked the victims for forgiveness, the Swiss news agency SDA reported, quoting Radio Rhône FM.

It said the abuse of children and young people happened between the 1950s and 1990s, and all the cases were now too old for a prosecution to take place.

The paedophile priests were identified after some ten victims went to the diocese of Sion with abuse allegations last year.

Three of the accused clergymen are still alive.

One of the victims told the radio the numbers of reported abuse cases did not correspond to the reality.

He said he had met around 50 other victims in Valais, many of whom did not want to talk about what they had experienced.

The man accused the church of a cover-up, saying previous bishops had known about the sexual abuse but had done nothing except move some priests to other parishes.

But Bishop Lovey, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2014, denied there had been an attempt to cover up the abuse.

He said priests were moved to other parishes as a preventive measure.

Between 2010 and 2016, around 220 victims informed the Swiss church authorities of abuse by ordained clergy between 1950 and 1990, SDA said.

The latest cases in Valais will be included in the church’s statistics for 2017, which have not yet been published.

In February 2017 the Swiss Bishops Conference set up a commission charged with awarding compensation to victims of historic sex abuse by Swiss priests.

The leading church authority announced it had created a 500,000 franc reparations fund to pay compensation to victims who no longer have the right to seek redress in court since the statute of limitations has passed.