This Saturday, February 19, the Attorney General’s Office announced that a priest, accused of committing sexual crimes with minors, he was sent to jail.
The accusing entity assured that in two days its officials, with the support of the Tolima Police, managed to prosecute Wilmar Quesada Pinto, 45 years old.
The priest was deprived of his freedom because he is accused of alleged sexual crimes of which two girls, seven and 14 years old, in the east of the department would have been victims. The Prosecutor’s Office reported that the minors they would be being abused by Quesada Pinto since 2019.
A sectional prosecutor from Melgar, Tolima, charged the priest with the crimes of abusive carnal access with a child under 14 years of age, abusive sexual acts with a child under 14 years of age and pornography with a child under 18 years of age, all aggravated.
The investigating body reported that the priest Wilmar Quesada Pinto did not accept the charges charged by the Attorney General’s Office. However, at the end of the rigorous hearings, it was possible to impose the restrictive security measure on his freedom in prison.
The complaint once morest the religious before the authorities was filed on February 15 by the mother of the minors.
According to the complaint made by the woman, she found out that her daughters were being abused by the priest following her eldest daughter found pornographic images of her underage sisters on the defendant’s computer.
According to information from the Attorney General’s Office, apparently the man, in addition to abusing the girls, took pictures of them and saved them on his computer.
The investigating entity added that, precisely, during the raid and search of the place of residence of the priest Wilmar Quesada Pinto, several cell phones and computer equipment were found with very useful material for research.
Colombian priest was wrong in a word and dozens of baptisms were declared invalid
The Colombian priest, Andrés Arango, who served for several years as a parish priest in Phoenix, United States, became news because for using for 25 years an incorrect formulation of words at the time of baptizing thousands of parishionersnow those who participated in these ceremonies had the sacrament invalidated, this by decision of the Vatican.
According to the international media, the phrase he used was: “We baptized you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” But the correct form was “I baptize you.” Although this seems like a small mistake for the church, it has a connotation that affects the entire process.
Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix explained to CNN that: “the problem of using us”, implies that “it is not the community that baptizes a person, but rather it is Christ, and He alone, who presides over all the sacraments, so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes”.
Now, the church is trying to find a solution for its followers, because as baptism is the first sacrament, this might cause those affected to have to go through all the processes (communion, confirmation and even marriage).
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