In the last 20 years, since the complaints against the priest Julio César Grassi were broadcast on television, 128 members of the Argentine Catholic Church were involved in cases of sexual abuse, from Archbishop Edgardo Gabriel Storni or Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, to altar boys and nuns. It’s just a sample.
In Argentina there are no official data. What appears here are the names that elDiarioAR managed to collect based on its own sources, data provided by associations that survived ecclesiastical abuse and information that appears in the media.
Along with the name, it is mentioned who had a conviction and who received expulsion from the clerical state, the maximum penalty that a priest can receive within the Catholic Church.
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