Abuse Survivors React to Zanchetta’s Transfer to a Monastery: “It’s a Mockery”

Daniel Vera, a member of the Survivors’ Network of Ecclesiastical Abuse, harshly questioned the possibility that the former bishop convicted of sexual abuse would not serve his sentence in a regular prison.

In an exclusive interview with the program Somos la Mañana, Daniel Vera, a member of the Survivors’ Network of Ecclesiastical Abuse, expressed his outrage at the possibility that Gustavo Zancheta, the former bishop of Orán convicted of aggravated sexual abuse, would continue to serve his sentence in a monastery and not in a regular prison.

“Justice is practically a mockery,” Vera denounced, after learning that the former priest had recently traveled to Rome and could now be housed in a religious monastery, instead of a penitentiary like any other convict.

Zancheta was found guilty of sexually abusing seminarians while he headed the northern diocese. Despite the seriousness of the incident, he was sentenced to only four years in prison, a sentence that the Network considers insufficient and symbolic.

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