This case embarrasses the Church of France and paticulièrement Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.
• What charges against the father Bernard Preynat?
father Bernard Preynat was indicted Jan. 27 for “sexual abuse of minors under 15 years per person having authority” and placed under judicial control. The charges against him would have occurred in a Lyon Scout group of the Saint Luc, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Rhone), between 1986 and 1991 and concern four children.
Father Bernard Preynat had not been challenged at the material despite recurring charges parents. Today pursued and confronted by his former victims before the prosecutor of Lyons, Preynat father finally admitted all the facts before the court, after more than twenty, and assured that his superiors had been aware of this tendency to pedophilia.
• What are the charges against the father Jerome Billioud?
the testimony of the former St. Luke have “woken up a number of things” in an another Lyon who decided to engage in Figaro. Peter, aged 42 and wishing to remain anonymous, says he was a victim of sexual touching to 16 years by Father Jerome Billioud the whole parish La Croix Rousse. It took 10 years for that Peter decides to file a complaint in 2009 but it had been closed due to prescription. Today occupying a leading position in a ministry, he contacted the Public Prosecutor of Lyon on 12 February. Pierre soon be reheard by the court.
Unlike the father Preynat the Billioud father denies the accusations. According to him “the first person mentioned is Cardinal Barbarin. Everything is good to reach it. “
• Why Cardinal Barbarin archbishop and is quoted in these two cases?
The victims of Preynat father seized the floor against Lyon Philippe Barbarin, who ordered a preliminary investigation on charges of failing to report and endangering the lives of others. He criticized Cardinal Barbarin have been made aware of child molestation charges in 2007-2008 and not doing nothing. During his visit to confession, the priest assured that his superiors had known “forever” for his tendency to pedophilia. Cardinal Barbarin said that a canonical trial will be initiated against Father Bernard Preynat and assured that he has been made aware of the facts that during the summer of 2014.
Peter, alleged victim’s father Bouilliot, also contends that Cardinal Barbarin “did nothing to remove the priest from the other children.” He says he met the bishop of Lyon in 2009. The latter had assured him “that he was fully aware” of these accusations and it would have “apologized to the priest by the name” before “hide behind the criminal prescription “to justify its inaction. Faced with this new accusation, Cardinal Barbarin has however expressed his incomprehension, while “solemnly asking that everyone leaves the Justice investigate in serenity.”
• Qu’est- that the association “the liberated speech”?
The released Word is an association founded in December 2015 by some victims of Father Preynat when they discover that the priest is still in service. Their goal is then to allow others to come forward. The association’s website brings together testimonies from victims and provides access to confessions letters of Father Bernard Preynat to victims relatives.
In addition to the desire to help victims break the silence, the association is fighting for the establishment of a precautionary approach. It would immediately suspend all suspected pedophile priest acts, including the risk to dismiss wrongly accused priests. Moreover, the association claimed limitations for sex crimes so that proceedings may lead including years after the event.
• What is the French Church’s position on these cases pedophilia?
Archbishop Pontier, archbishop of Marseille, recently renewed support “of prayer and friendship” of the Conference of bishops to Cardinal Barbarin and assured that the “priority” and the “will” of the bishops were to “make the truth for the victims.”
Previously, bishops covered the actions of these priests and moving them to other parishes without warning of the danger. It was precisely the practice of Cardinal Albert Decourtray, who handed in service in 1991, after six months of suspension, the father Bernard Preynat. But since the pontificate of Benedict XVI, the Church applies a policy of transparency on these topics. Cardinal Barbarin concerning the Vatican felt it was “appropriate to await the outcome” of judicial investigations before deciding on his fate. Pope Francis, who did not comment on the case, has the option to remove the archbishop from office.
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