Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Belcastro, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy · 2025

Italy: Calabria parish priest's conviction for sexually abusing seventeen parish children becomes final

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic parish priest of Belcastro

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Victims were children of his own parish, accessed through the trust and access his office as their priest created.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-09-25 · conviction, final

Tribunale di Catanzaro (trial), Corte d'Appello di Catanzaro (appeal), Corte di Cassazione, Terza Sezione (final), Italy. Don Roberto Mastro, parish priest of Belcastro until he abruptly left the parish in December 2010, was convicted of sexually abusing approximately seventeen minors of his parish between 2007 and 2010. He was sentenced to thirteen years and six months at first instance, reduced to eleven years and six months on appeal, plus interdiction from public office and restitution to victims. On 25 September 2025 the Third Section of the Court of Cassation declared his defence's appeal inadmissible, making the conviction final.

2025-09-25

Third Section of the Court of Cassation declared the defence appeal inadmissible; sentence final.

Primary record

specialist advocacy press final disposition report Rete L'Abuso: Violenza sessuale su 17 ragazzini: ex parroco di Belcastro condannato a 11 anni e sei mesi in Cassazione.: Report of the Cassazione's final rejection of the appeal.
regional newspaper final disposition report CatanzaroInforma: Belcastro, ex parroco condannato in via definitiva per violenza sessuale su minori.: Report naming Don Roberto Mastro, describing the timeline 2007–2010 and the final Cassazione ruling.

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