Milan, priest arrested for child abuse

A priest from the Diocese of Milan was arrested by the police on charges of sexual abuse of minors. The violence was allegedly committed between February 2020 and May 2021. This was announced by the Diocese of Milan. The priest is now under house arrest. After the ordination which took place in June 2019, the priest received the post of parish vicar in Busto Garolfo, in the province of Milan. The Diocese of Milan “acknowledges this news with amazement and pain and immediately undertakes to investigate 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 pastor “. The Archbishop of Milan, Monsignor Mario Delpini, “expresses his closeness to the parish communities of Busto Garolfo and in particular to all those involved in various ways in the affair”.