Child abuse, Milanese priest arrested

(ANSA) - MILAN, 16 JUL - The Mobile Squad of the Milan Police Headquarters has arrested Don Emanuele Tempesta, a priest of the Diocese, who is now under house arrest. According to the first information gathered by the Diocese - which at the moment has not received official communications from the judicial authority - Fr Emanuele Tempesta is accused of sexual abuse of minors in the period from February 2020 to May 2021.

    The same Diocese that "takes act of contempt and pain of this news and immediately undertakes to deepen the facts, applying the indications of the universal law of the Church and the CEI and following the indications that will be given to it by the Holy See ".

    "In ensuring the most complete willingness to collaborate with the judicial authority to ascertain the truth of the facts, the Diocese also wishes to specify that no report concerning the facts under investigation has never reached the Curia, the Vicar of the area and the parish priest". Diocese.

    "The Archbishop of Milan, Monsignor Mario Delpini, expresses his closeness to the parish communities of Busto Garolfo and in particular to all the subjects involved in various ways in the affair - continues the note -. The Diocese, in reiterating its commitment to guarantee the best protection to all minors involved in pastoral initiatives, also reminds that the "Diocesan contact person for the protection of minors" was established on 23 November 2019 who, following appropriate contact methods, has the purpose of receiving reports relating to presumptive abuse on minors and collecting the elements for a first evaluation of the Ordinary ". (HANDLE).