Alleged abuse of deaf children on 2 continents points to Vatican failings…
Vulnerable to the extreme, the deaf students tended to come from poor families that fervently believed in the sanctity of the church. Prosecutors say the children were fondled, raped, sometimes tied up and, in one instance, forced to wear a diaper to hide the bleeding.
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LUJAN DE CUYO, Argentina - When investigators swept in and raided the religious Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf, they uncovered one of the worst cases yet among the global abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church: a place of silent torment where prosecutors say pedophiles preyed on the most isolated and submissive children. The answer, according to a Washington Post investigation that included a review of court and church documents, private letters, and dozens of interviews in Argentina and Italy, is that church officials up to and including Pope Francis were warned repeatedly and directly about a group of alleged predators that included Corradi. "I want Pope Francis to come here, I want him to explain how this happened, how they knew this and did nothing," a 24-year-old alumna of the Provolo Institute said, using sign language as her hands shook in rage. Students at the school were smacked if they used sign language. The Italian victims' efforts to sound the alarm to church authorities began in 2008 and included mailing a list of accused priests to Francis in 2014 and physically handing him the list in 2015.
Soon, more than a dozen other former students were telling their stories, using an improvised mix of sign language and limited speech. In a news conference, he called the allegations "a hoax, a lie, and nothing more," and he noted the association for former students was involved in a property dispute with the Provolo Institute. Gianni Bisoli, a then-62-year-old ski instructor, accused 30 religious figures and other Provolo faculty members of abusing him - a number far beyond the others. Victims sought help from Pope Francis The Italian victims believed that if anybody could better handle abuse cases, it was Francis, who was selected as leader of the church in 2013 - two years after the Verona inquiry - and who announced the creation of a new commission on child protection. Law enforcement responds In the early 1960s, the Provolo Institute in Verona dismissed one priest and another faculty member for " moral inadequacy," church officials say. In Argentina, Corradi initially taught at a Provolo Institute for the Deaf in La Plata, a provincial city an hour's drive from the belleépoque buildings of Buenos Aires. Following the disclosures of widespread abuse in Lujan de Cuyo in 2016, La Plata authorities launched an investigation that has uncovered allegations of sexual abuse and mistreatment, dating back to the 1980s, against at least five men who worked at the school, including Corradi and another Italian cleric.
"When we found out this started in Italy, we were surprised," Borelli said in sign language. In 1994, Corradi's religious congregation sent him to set up a new Provolo Institute in western Argentina. The school - a sprawling brick compound surrounded by high walls that served as both a boarding and day school for dozens of deaf children - opened in 1998, with Corradi as spiritual director. The school did not teach sign language - instead embracing a methodology that sought to teach deaf children to read and speak like the hearing. Abused pupils say they learned sign language in secret from older students, but even that was of little help. The 22-year-old man and his sister - the 24-year-old who wanted Francis to come to Argentina and see what happened there, and who said she was raped as a child by another Provolo employee - came from a poor family whose parents had limited knowledge of sign language. Also among the alleged abusers in Lujan is a deaf and mentally challenged man, now in his 40s, who prosecutors say had been abandoned as a child at the Provolo Institute in La Plata. During those years, Francis served as Cardinal Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, a diocese some 700 miles southeast of Lujan de Cuyo, and would not have been accountable for actions at the school. "I felt like water, as if I was nothing," she said in sign language in her lawyer's office in Mendoza, Argentina. He suggested Freemasons - members of a fraternal order known for secret rituals and community service that the Catholic Church has long viewed as antagonists - were somehow behind the accusations, although he acknowledged the church had no "proof.
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