The Canary Islands send two cases of abuse in the Church to the Attorney General’s Office. The Superior Prosecutor of the Canary Islands, Luis del Río, has already sent the cases of sexual abuse within the Church in the Canary Islands to the State Attorney General’s Office thus complying with the official letter issued on January 31 giving a term of ten days for the sending of all the procedural documentation. “It has been detected two cases in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and no cases in Las Palmas. They are cases that are open, “explained yesterday Luis del Río, superior prosecutor of the Canary Islands.
all after a intense sweep carried out by the two provincial prosecutorss to collect possible cases of abuse or aggression within the Church in the Canary Islands in compliance with said office.
Are only proceedings initiated in court, such as summaries or abbreviated procedures and also in tax offices; that is to say, all the investigative proceedings that deal with criminal matters.
The cases already investigated and judged are not included in those sent at the request of the Superior State Prosecutor’s Office.
Protection Commissions
From the Bishopric of the Diocese of the Canary Islands confirmed yesterday that they do not have any open cases of abuses within the Church, as pointed out by the Canary Islands Prosecutor’s Office itself, and they recall that they have a commission for the protection of minors and the prevention of abuse directed by Eloy A. Santana, who is also the person in charge of receiving possible complaints about sexual abuse and/or communications with information in this regard.
remember that This commission was born to comply with the provisions of Pope Francis in the Apostolic Letter in the form of a “motu proprio” You are lux mundi, for the protection of minors and the prevention of sexual abuse, attached to the Judicial Curia.
In the case of Bishopric of Tenerife also has an office for the protection of minors and vulnerable people, directed by Domingo Navarro Mederos. All the data included will be treated with the utmost confidentiality between the director of the commission and the person who transfers said information.
The two commissions have several ways to report alleged cases of abuse and initiate the investigations that are necessary.
investigation commission
The order issued by the State Prosecutor General’s Office and developed by the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of the Canary Islands is due to the fact that it wants to make an in-depth study of these serious events at the national level as a result of the approval by the Congress of Deputies of the creation of an investigation commission for this matter at the request of Esquerra, EH Bildu and United We Can.
A commission that comes after the revelation made by the newspaper The country where I know collect cases of sexual abuse suffered by minors in Spanish dioceses from the 1930s to 2018.
the iReport lists eleven cases of abuse on the islands, seven in the province of Las Palmas and four in Santa Cruz de Tenerife against the two cases sent, for the moment, to the State Attorney General’s Office by the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of the Canary Islands.
