ARGENTINA
Tengri News
A well-known Argentine priest began a 15-year prison sentence for pedophilia Monday, four years after he was convicted, AFP reports.
A court ordered the immediate arrest of Julio Cesar Grassi, 57, who was on provisional release after being convicted in 2009.
The arrest came after the supreme court of Buenos Aires province upheld his conviction.
Grassi was found guilty of abusing a 15-year-old boy who had been living at the Felices los Ninos (Happy Children) foundation in Hurlingham, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Buenos Aires.
The victim, then 19, first publicly recounted the abuse on television in October 2002.
Two other victims later came forward with their own stories of abuse by the priest.
Grassi, who was well connected politically in the 1990s, gained media exposure soliciting donations from actors, newscasters and politicians for the foundation, which cared for some 6,000 children.
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