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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Avellino, Campania, Italy · 2024

Italy: priest's conviction for abusing a thirteen-year-old boy in a residential community becomes final

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest with pastoral responsibility at a residential community for minors

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a child under the priest's pastoral responsibility within the residential community where the priest had placed and continuing access to him.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-05-30 · conviction, final

    Tribunale di Avellino (trial), Corte d'Appello (appeal), Corte di Cassazione, Prima Sezione Penale (final), Italy. Don Livio Graziano was convicted of sexual violence against a thirteen-year-old boy placed in a residential community, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. He was arrested on 26 October 2021 after the boy's father discovered suspicious messages and a behavioural change following his son's placement; carabinieri found nude images of the boy and a substantial sum of cash on the priest. On 30 May 2024 the First Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence, rejecting the defence's appeal as inadmissible.

Appellate history

  1. 2024-05-30

    First Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation rejected the defence appeal as inadmissible; sentence final.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • priestly office and access within the residential community housing the boy

Primary record

Sources

specialist advocacy press final disposition report Rete L'Abuso: Don Livio Graziano condannato a 8 anni in via definitiva.

Report of the final Cassazione conviction.

regional newspaper final disposition report Ottopagine Avellino: Abusi sessuali su minore: confermata la condanna a 8 anni per Don Livio Graziano.

Report with case background including the 2021 arrest and evidence found.

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