A court in Mendoza on Thursday sentenced former nun Kumiko Kosaka to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a religious institute in western province.
Kosaka, 51, was initially acquitted in 2023 of sex crimes committed against children at the Instituto Próvolo in Luján de Cuyo between 2005 and 2016.
But last month, Mendoza’s Supreme Court overturned the acquittal and ordered that she be sentenced.
She was found guilty of two counts of sexual abuse as an accomplice and three as the principal offender.
Kosaka, who left the religious order after she was accused, appeared in court accompanied only by her lawyer.
She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, an AFP reporter observed.
After sentencing, she remains free for now with previously presented appeals still pending.
Continue reading at Buenos Aires Times
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