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by Joseph Pelletier • ChurchMilitant.com • January 28, 2016
OAXACA, Mexico (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Mexican archbishop is being accused of protecting a priest many claim abused up to 100 children.
In a press conference held Tuesday, multiple priests and activists charged José Luis Chávez Botello, the archbishop of Antequere-Oaxaca, with intentionally concealing sexual abuse reportedly perpetrated by a diocesan priest.
Several speakers at the conference, which was held by the Oaxaca Children’s Forum, claim the Rev. Gerardo Silvestre Hernández molested “more than 100 victims,” with the first instance of abuse occurring nearly a decade ago.
“In 2006, Gerardo Silvestre abused a nine-year-old boy during a six-month internship,” asserted Alejandro de Jesus from the Oaxaca Children’s Forum. This occurred, de Jesus continued, while Silvestre was serving the San Pablo Huitzo parish in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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