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	Verona, Scandalo Pedofilia la Repubblica January 24, 2009 http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/verona-scandalo-pedofilia/28579?video [video presentation] [read the original story in L'espresso] [read the Italian-language story in L'espresso] Verona, scandalo pedofilia (24 gennaio 2009) 67 ex allievi di un istituto religioso per sordomuti denunciano molestie all'Espresso Sarebbero stati violentati e molestati negli anni all'interno dell'istituto Antonio Provolo. Gli episodi citati riguardano 25 religiosi; le vittime potrebbero essere un centinaio. Di Simone Bianchin e Lorenzo Maria Falco [translation] Verona, the pedophilia scandal (January 24, 2009) Sixty-seven former students of a religious Institute for deaf and mute young people have told the newspaper Espresso fthat they were sexually molested. The were allegedly molested and abused sexually during the years spent at the Institution Antonio Provolo. The reported cases are related to 25 priests; the victims could be about 100. Here is the transcript of what some citizens of Verona say in this video about the story. An elderly couple. The woman:“ It’s frightening, for me it’s frightening. I’m 83 and I have never heard such a thing, I don’t know how we can go on in such a way….” The man: “ the fact is it was the clergy responsible…..” The woman interrupts: “we always trusted the nuns and the priests in their contacts with our sons and daughters and our nephews. We always came here ( Looking at the church…)” The man: “On Christmas , too, we came here… A second woman: “I wouldn’t really know what to say… I read it in the newspaper Arena of Verona….I don’t believe in it…” The reporter “ You doubt what it’s being said….” The woman: “Yes, I doubt it… The reporter: “You doubt…..” The woman: “Yes, really….. I can’t really believe it.” The reporter: “ And if the allegations were found true?” The woman: “Then really a lot will fall down.” A priest: “ I’m a priest of the Diocese and I don’t know anything about that Institution and I find myself in such a painful situation and to think that such a thing could occur, thinking that in that Institution there are also inmates who are suffering…. Therefore I think there is a necessity to clarify what happened, using patience and determination. Being the Institution is a place where the inmates are being educated it’s necessary to examine the facts and when everything will be ascertained there will be the need to make the due steps, contemplating even a suspension a divinis of those who will be found responsible.
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