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Child abuse investigation: Prato, 3 other priests investigated

2/1/2020, 5:16:13 PM


Prosecutor expands investigation with interrogations (ANSA)

The elements acquired in the interrogations underway in the investigation for group sexual violence against nine religious of the former association of the "Disciples of the Annunciation" have prompted the magistrates to broaden the field of investigation: in the next few hours they will be registered in the register of suspects at least three other priests. Currently the suspects are the founder of the association, Don Giglio Gilioli, and eight other people who at the time of the facts of the investigation, about ten years ago, collaborated with him.

According to what has been learned in investigative circles, the new suspects, for the same crime, are people who gravitated within the religious association at that time and who have been identified in these hours.

Among the elements in evidence of the accusations are investigated very carefully by the investigators "some diaries" object of the material seized in the searches of recent days.