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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Mendoza, Argentina · 2019

Argentina: Próvolo Institute priests convicted of abusing deaf child students — 45 and 42 years

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priests directing the Instituto Próvolo school for deaf children, institute gardener within the same custodial structure

Organization

Instituto Próvolo, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza

Spiritual nexus

Deaf children in the total custody of a Catholic institute run by the men who abused them — disability, boarding structure and priestly authority compounding into total control.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-11-25 · convictions; Corbacho final at the Supreme Court

    Segundo Tribunal Penal Colegiado de Mendoza; Suprema Corte de Mendoza; CSJN. On 25 November 2019 the priests Horacio Corbacho Blanck and Nicola Corradi were sentenced to 45 and 42 years, and gardener Armando Gómez to 18, for aggravated sexual abuse and corruption of deaf child students of the Instituto Próvolo in Mendoza. Mendoza's Suprema Corte ratified all three unanimously; the national Supreme Court dismissed Corbacho's final recourse in February 2024, leaving his sentence firm, and left Gómez's firm in October 2023. Corradi died under house arrest on 14 July 2021 before his appeals concluded.

Appellate history

  1. Date in cited record · undefined

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  2. 2024-02-01 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • total custodial religious authority over deaf child students
  • victims' deafness isolating them from disclosure

Primary record

Sources

official court release appellate outcome release Poder Judicial de Mendoza: 'La Suprema Corte ratificó la sentencia en el caso Próvolo'.

The provincial court's own confirmation of the ratified sentences.

national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition 'Caso Próvolo: la Corte Suprema dejó firme la condena a 45 años', Infobae, 1 Mar. 2024.

National reporting of the CSJN finality.

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