{"id":64733,"date":"2024-01-25T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=64733"},"modified":"2024-01-25T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:23:25","slug":"vatican-court-gives-first-ever-conviction-for-sexual-abuse-in-its-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/01\/25\/vatican-court-gives-first-ever-conviction-for-sexual-abuse-in-its-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Court gives first-ever conviction for sexual abuse in its territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time, a court has convicted a priest of abusing minors within the confines of the Vatican City State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case involves Fr. Gabrielle Martinelli. He has been found guilty on appeal after he was acquitted by the Vatican court in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The court acquits Gabriele Martinelli of the crimes charged against him in connection with the period after Aug. 9, 2008 due to insufficient evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The priest was sentenced to two years and six months in prison. The abuse took place at the Vatican's minor seminary when Martinelli was under 18 and not yet a priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The St. Pius X Pre-Seminary is located inside Vatican City and houses young men between the ages of 12 and 18 who are often altar boys at St. Peter's Basilica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PA\/JRB<br>TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Martinelli has been found guilty of sexually abusing a former student of the St. Pius X Pre-Seminary between 2008 and 2009. This is the first time the Vatican Court has sentenced someone for violence committed within its territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":64730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pp5N3opy5sw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgabrielemartinellieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgabrielemartinelliint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64735,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64733\/revisions\/64735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}