Prosecutors on Friday requested a
14-year prison sentence against a priest they say repeatedly
abused a little boy who had been entrusted to him by his
parents.
Vito Beatrice, 71, is a priest at Sant'Alessio Church in
Rome's tony Aventino neighborhood.
The priest is charged with sexual assault on a child
aggravated by abuse of authority while he was the alleged
victim's spiritual tutor between Easter 1995 and October 2004.
The alleged victim, now 28, tried to kill himself by
jumping out a nightclub window into a river in February 2010. He
then told his girlfriend and his parents about the abuse,
finally reporting the priest in 2011.
Sentencing is expected at the end of the month.
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