MADRID (SPAIN)
BBC
November 4, 2018
By James Badcock
Emiliano Álvarez says the abuse at his boarding school began at the age of 11
“The priest who tortured me is still giving Mass in the village down the road,” says Emiliano Álvarez, a 52-year-old from Borrenes, north-western Spain.
Like other victims who have come forward, Mr Álvarez claims he was abused by staff at the Seminario Menor boarding school in La Bañeza, in Zamora province, and that Spain’s Catholic Church authorities have done little about it.
He filed his accusation against a priest in early 2017, and is still waiting for a decision by the local ecclesiastical court in Astorga.
Mr Álvarez says he was 11 on the night he recalls being woken by the priest.
“He was pulling down the sheets and my underpants, and I was pulling them back up again and again.
“I can’t remember much more about that first time, but it started to happen almost every night. Then, when I was 12, it got worse; I remember fighting to turn my hips away from him so he could not touch me.”
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