An educator with links to Catholic
activist lobby group Communion and Liberation (CL) was arrested
Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl
in Rimini.
The unnamed man, provincial head of Gioventù Studentesca "Don
Giussani" of Reggio Emilia, which reports to Communion and
Liberation, was arrested on charges of sexual assault against a
minor.
According to investigators, while he was on a spiritual retreat
in Rimini, in preparation for Easter, he allegedly abused the
old girl who had been entrusted to him by her parents.
The investigating judge of the Court of Rimini, Vinicio
Cantarini, signed the order of precautionary detention in prison
following the investigations of the Carabinieri of Rimini,
coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Davide Ercolani.
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