Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Santiago, Chile · 2022

Chile: the archdiocese official who received abuse complaints convicted of abusing minors himself

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest and chancellor of the Archdiocese of Santiago — the official who received abuse complaints

Organization

Archdiocese of Santiago

Spiritual nexus

Victims under a priest whose institutional office was literally the complaint channel — the system's keeper was its predator.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2022-06-18 · conviction and 15-year sentence

7° Tribunal Oral en lo Penal de Santiago, Chile. Óscar Muñoz Toledo, former chancellor of the Archdiocese of Santiago — the official charged with receiving abuse complaints — was convicted in June 2022 of rape and repeated sexual abuse of four minors between 2009 and 2018 in Macul, Maipú and Parral, and sentenced to 15 years. He had been laicised in 2019; his 2018 arrest helped trigger the crisis that led Chile's entire episcopate to offer resignation.

Primary record

official court release verdict and sentencing release Poder Judicial de Chile: press release on the conviction.: The judiciary's own release.
national public broadcaster sentencing report Radio Universidad de Chile, 18 Jun. 2022.: National coverage of the sentence.

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