Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Miranda, Cauca, Colombia · 2020

Colombia: town priest sentenced to 16 years for sexual crimes against a twelve-year-old altar server

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Convicted

Authority role

parish priest of Miranda, Cauca

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An altar girl under the town's priest.

Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

2020-10-01 · conviction and sentence

Colombian court, Cauca (Fiscalía prosecution). Arcángel Acosta Izquierdo, the priest of Miranda, Cauca, was sentenced to 16 years for sexual crimes against a twelve-year-old girl who served in his parish (facts of October 2018), in a prosecution announced by the Fiscalía General de la Nación.

Documented coercion mechanisms

parish authority over an altar server

Cited record

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official prosecutor release sentencing release Fiscalía General de la Nación: 16-year sentence for the Miranda, Cauca priest.: The prosecuting authority's release.
national newspaper court reporting conviction report Infobae Colombia, 25 Oct. 2020.: National press corroboration.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscalia.gov.co/colombia/seccionales/fiscalia-logra-sentencia-condenatoria-de-16-anos-de-prision-para-sacerdote-por-delitos-sexuales-con-menor-de-edad-en-miranda-cauca/ Corpus classification: official-prosecutor-release; evidentiary role: sentencing-release.
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2020/10/25/el-aberrante-caso-de-un-sacerdote-que-abuso-sexualmente-de-una-monaguilla-de-12-anos-en-miranda-cauca/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: conviction-report. SHA-256 6769a608f768e99e38de8207c0c80d3348166e19498c9e526f90426320a55f22
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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