I am Luis María de la Calle; I suffered sexual abuse in the minor seminary of the IVE when I was 12 years old. I denounced everything that happened to the former bishop of San Rafael, Msgr. Taussig, who did the right thing. But I had to present the complaint on my own, I directly to the diocesan bishop, since this duty of the superiors of the IVE in the person of the late Buela and the unpresentable current rector of the same minor seminary in which I suffered the abuse, Fr. Gabriel Zapata, was not done at the time.
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Former SSVM nun affected: “They held me against my will and destroyed me psychologically”
A woman who spent 20 years in the IVE tells IDEAL her story and how they “manipulate” the devotees to obtain donations
Aurora, not her real name, was only 16 years old when a priest at the Institute of the Incarnate Word urged her to run away from her parents’ home in Brazil to start the novitiate. His family did not want him to make such a drastic decision at that young age, but one night he fled to Argentina with the priest.
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