Public Prosecutor, Office of Denunciations; Quilmes Judiciary, Province of Buenos Aires Criminal Complaint Date: February 7, 2003 Name: BEATRIZ CÁNDIDA VARELA   Attachment I:   Let it be known herein, in the presence of the Public Prosecutor, that on the 14th day of August, after having dined at her home, RUBÉN HORACIO PARDO, family acquaintance and neighbor, invited her son, CARLOS GABRIEL FERRINI, to spend the night and continue their conversation at his house, located on Calle 155 e/ 12y 11, in Berazategui.   That same night her son, CARLOS GABRIEL FERRINI, 15 years of age, DNI No. 33,100,547, found himself in the bedroom of priest RUBÉN HORACIO PARDO (approximately 50 years of age), who after a conversation between the two, asked him if he was cold, invited him to his bed, told me “I’ll give you a hug.”   They continued talking about sexuality, [the priest] covered [the boy’s] eyes, ran his fingers down his back, turning off the light, and tells him “that he wants to teach him how to kiss a girl,” kissed him on the mouth and groped his genitals, adopting a fatherly attitude (he helped him make the bed, he turned on the television).   The boy didn’t like this posturing.  What is more, he got scared and gestured as a sign of rejecting [the priest’s advances], [but] the priest responded by hugging him more tightly, trapping him like “a snake that wraps around its victims.”   The man asked the boy to touch him “to watch him get hard.”  He asked the boy “what do you want us to do.” [The boy] gave a negative response.  The man squeezed him with his legs and made him feel trapped.  The priest asked him if he knew how to kiss girls, but the victim didn’t respond.  He was paralyzed and told [the priest] he wanted to go to the bathroom, but the priest continued with his game, lowered the boy’s pants, began to massage him, and asked him to do the same, [but the boy] removed the priest’s hands and left the bed.   [The priest] interrogated him about “where he was going’ and the boy answered that [he was going to] the bathroom.  He planned to escape when the priest fell asleep.  When [the boy] returned to the bed, the priest asked him if “he wanted to resume [try again] on a different day,” this while he put on a pornographic movie. He said to him, “Let's get hot” and masturbated and ejaculated, but only after asking the boy for oral sex, which the boy refused.  When the priest went to the bathroom, the boy went to his own bed. The priest asked if he wanted him to massage him, her [Beatriz’s] son refused, turning off the light but leaving the TV on.   The boy was nervous and fearful, while the man said to him that “from now on you’ll tell me everything that is going on with you.”  Out of fear he answered in the affirmative, thanking him for the advice, while he trembled in bed.   The boy waited until the priest fell asleep so he could leave the house.  When he heard him snoring he gathered his strength and fled.  He jumped over the dividing wall and arrived at the complainant’s [his mother’s] house, giving her this account.   She said that she didn’t initially report the incident, but consulted with a psychologist and lawyer from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who completed several interviews as a method of inquiry.   She didn’t initially report the incident because, on one hand, they were in a state of shock, and also she considered it a priority to take care of her children.   Only at this time is she denouncing the matter.  On being asked if she had anything else to add, the complainant said she did not, thus marking the end of this authorized declaration by signing her name in the presence of the Prosecuting Agent and me, sending a copy to the Supervising Judge.   E.J.

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