Church's Protective Stance Towards Priests Accused of Child Abuse: A Victim's Outcry

"Personally, I feel disgust. Why does Pope Francis's Church continue to have a protective attitude towards priests who have abused minors?" Giada Vitale, a victim (now 25 years old) of a priest who was definitively sentenced in 2020 to 4 years and ten months in prison and, in parallel, also by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (which suspended him a divinis) is in shock as she watches on her mobile phone the footage that portrays her tormentor in the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco at the Easter celebration of Holy Thursday. The Reverend Marino Genova dressed in full liturgical clothing, along with other priests, is actually celebrating the solemn rite with which the Church instituted the Eucharist. Pope strengthens anti-abuse law and includes laity, but the text excludes the obligation to report to magistrates and police Giada's case is well known to the chronicles because it had even ended up on the table of the then Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia. It was also subsequently brought to Parliament. The young woman in 2009 had been abused from the age of 13 until the age of 17 by a Molise parish priest (currently under house arrest in the monastery of Subiaco). The former parish priest of Portocannone after the final conviction was first taken to prison and then transferred for medical reasons to house arrest in the monastery of Subiaco. In the parliamentary questions on this case, it emerged that the girl was never subjected to either an expert opinion or an evidentiary incident, and this, for both periods in which her file was divided by the Prosecutor's Office of Termoli. Abuse, in Germany the Church allocates 40 million euros for the victims. But in Italy, the CEI does not want to talk about compensation Psychologists who were later heard confirmed and described a condition of psychological fragility and a state of severe psychological dismay of the victim. In particular, two psychologists stated that Giada was, at the time of the facts, in a state of very strong subjugation. In practice, the girl could never have given her consent freely and spontaneously after the age of 14 - as the parish priest's defense claimed - because she was a victim of previous traumatizing sexual experiences and subjected to the psychological control of Don Marino "who exercised it through a false affection". Abuse in the church, in 70 years over 4 thousand minors molested by priests: the report of the inquiry commission in Portugal "The trauma of sexual abuse has caused irreversible damage in the normal evolution of the victim's maturation (...) Thinking that a thirteen and then fourteen-year-old girl can have a relationship with a 55-year-old man is an outrage to law, psychology and above all childhood. A crazy position and, moreover, instigating, which can make pedophiles think it is legitimate to manipulate and then abuse a victim". The shock of the Jesuits: "Father Rupnik abused other nuns" but they are silent on who lifted the excommunication in 2020 Giada's voice cracks: "After a year and a half in Rebibbia prison, now the one who abused me is serving a period of house arrest in the monastery of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco for medical reasons. Despite the bans received on Holy Thursday, he was celebrating during the Chrism Mass. All this hurts me, it causes me pain, I find it absurd as well as offensive for the same ecclesiastical institution". Giada now appeals to Pope Francis, asking him for clarity.