Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile · 2024

Chile: Diocese of Valparaíso finds priest guilty of abusing a ten-year-old student decades earlier, expels him

Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

See cited record

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The defendant was a teaching priest at a diocesan seminary school and the victim his ten-year-old student, placing her directly under his combined clerical and educational authority at the time of the abuse.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-12-14 · Canonical finding of guilt and expulsion from clerical state

Diocese of Valparaíso, Administrative Penal Process, Chile. Found guilty; permanently expelled from the clerical state; right of appeal to Rome retained

Primary record

Sources

La Tercera (2024) 'Obispado de Valparaíso expulsa a sacerdote tras ser declarado culpable de abuso sexual a menor de edad'. Available at: latercera.com (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: The Diocese of Valparaíso concluded its Administrative Penal Process against priest Jorge Calderón Bustamante, finding him guilty of sexually abusing a girl when she was ten years old and a student at Colegio Seminario San Rafael in Viña del Mar, and permanently expelled him from the clerical state. The complaint, filed in 2021, concerned conduct from over four decades earlier; the diocese's Abuse Prevention Council reviewed the case, and the priest retained a right of appeal.: La Tercera (2024) 'Obispado de Valparaíso expulsa a sacerdote tras ser declarado culpable de abuso sexual a menor de edad'. Available at: latercera.com (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: The Diocese of Valparaíso concluded its Administrative Penal Process against priest Jorge Calderón Bustamante, finding him guilty of sexually abusing a girl when she was ten years old and a student at Colegio Seminario San Rafael in Viña del Mar, and permanently expelled him from the clerical state. The complaint, filed in 2021, concerned conduct from over four decades earlier; the diocese's Abuse Prevention Council reviewed the case, and the priest retained a right of appeal.
BioBioChile (2024) 'Obispado de Valparaíso expulsa a sacerdote tras ser declarado culpable de abuso sexual'. Available at: biobiochile.cl (Accessed 2026-07-19).: BioBioChile (2024) 'Obispado de Valparaíso expulsa a sacerdote tras ser declarado culpable de abuso sexual'. Available at: biobiochile.cl (Accessed 2026-07-19).

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