The investigations began in May 2020. Thanks to the interceptions arranged by the investigators, it was possible to reconstruct a series of precise requests that the parish priest made towards the minor, “in total disregard of the principles of ethics and religiosity that should inspire his behavior “, commented Pilate.
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The documents in the hands of the police speak of four victims, all under the age of 18 and residing in Termini Imerese, in the province of Palermo. “He was able to set up a psychological game of addiction”, continues the investigating judge, “tempting children with financial rewards, taking advantage of his humble origins and the situation of need”.
As a reward for the sexual favors he received, Esposito offered small sums of money through prepaid card top-ups. The carabinieri of Termini Imerese do not exclude that the 63-year-old has used the offers of the faithful.
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The mother of the 17-year-old also ended up under house arrest, who according to the investigating judge “has shown that she is aware of the nature of the relationship between her son and the parish priest and that she retains part of the sums that the latter sends as compensation for herself”. In an interception at the end of May 2021, it was the woman who urged her son to send some material to Father Vincenzo.
The Archdiocese of Perugia, in commenting on the news, expressed “its closeness, human and spiritual, to the parish community of San Feliciano”, specifying that “no report has ever reached the ecclesiastical authority regarding the facts in question. It remains a priority. the commitment to investigate the facts “and for this reason” ensures the most complete willingness to collaborate with the judicial authority in order to reach the truth of the facts “.
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