Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2009

Argentina: Julio Grassi's conviction for abusing a boy of his children's foundation — final at every level

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest and founder of the Fundación Felices los Niños

Organization

Fundación Felices los Niños

Spiritual nexus

A resident child of the priest's own charitable foundation — the court's aggravation clause states the nexus in the judgment's own words.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2009-06-10 · conviction; final after CSJN rejection

Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal 1 de Morón; Casación; SCBA; CSJN. Julio César Grassi, founder of the Fundación Felices los Niños, was convicted in 2009 of aggravated sexual abuse and aggravated corruption of a minor resident of his foundation — the judgment itself aggravating the crime because he was a priest charged with the victim's education and care. Every level confirmed it: Casación, the Buenos Aires Supreme Court, and on 21 March 2017 the national Supreme Court rejected his final recourses, with a further rejection in March 2020. He has been imprisoned since 2013.

Primary record

official court release final appellate disposition Centro de Información Judicial (CIJ): CSJN confirms the 15-year sentence against Julio César Grassi.: The judiciary's own information service on the finality.
national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition 'La Corte Suprema dejó firme otra condena contra el padre Grassi', Infobae, 5 Mar. 2020.: National coverage of the further CSJN rejection.

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