An
11-year-old Italian girl has been hailed as a hero after using her cell phone
to document the alleged sexual abuse inflicted on her by a Catholic priest. Father
Michele Mottola, 59, was arrested in the week in Trentola Ducenta, near Naples,
when audio recordings said to be of him and the girl got to local press.
The Bishop of Aversa, Angelo Spinello, was made aware of the allegations as early
as of May 2018 and suspended Mottola at the time, as well as reporting the
allegations to the general public prosecutor of the commissariat of Aversa.
However, no further action was taken against the priest.
Almost
a year and a half later, the action was only taken once the recordings were
ventilated on autoimmune disorder Irene, a political TV program. it had been
then that the general public Prosecutor's office in Naples gave orders to
arrest.
"Look,
there is nobody there," a voice that is allegedly Mottola's said in one,
according to translations by Church Militant. "You are scared? Embrace me,
kiss me."
"Do
you recognize that I like you?" the voice said in another. "Do you
want a bit of a kiss?"
In
one clip, you can hear a child whimpering and telling the man to stop
repeatedly.
"Take
this to dry yourself," you can allegedly hear Mottola speech in another,
after more tears and protestations are detected from the woman.
Captured from his twitter |
The
child resorted to recording the repeated abuse that allegedly took place after
her mother's attempts to inform local parishioners failed. In her innocence,
one of the recordings also show her pleading with the man to stop abusing her,
telling him that she had told others inside the church, but he responded by
telling her not to tell lies.
"You
didn't have to do it, as a result of currently they'll perceive alternative
things," he told the woman. "Things will get very bad. I will come to
your home to talk to your parents."
The priest also allegedly tried to coax the girl into silence by comparing her to Islamic
State suicide bombers.
"You
will tell lies. do you understand you can lie? you're like Islamic suicide
bombers, throwing a bomb, killing people and leaving. The mud ends up also on
your family and on you."
Another the clip appears to show Mottola taking a gentler approach: "Can you say that
you have invented everything to the limit?
"Everything
... that I took you to the bedroom ... everything.
"So,
we tend to take this mess out of the way. we can pretend that it never
happened. we don't say it anymore, okay?"
After
the clips were broadcast on La Iene, the girl's mother said she was proud of
her daughter's wiliness.
Source: Newsweek
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