Casa Pia abuse scandal
The Casa Pia abuse scandal is the popular media and public name for a case of organized child abuse by celebrities in Portugal .
case
The case became public in 2002 through a publication in the weekly Expresso and a subsequent television report.
It led to charges against a number of employees of the Portuguese state organization Casa Pia , in whose children's home Casa Pia de Lisboa in Lisbon there had been sexual abuse of wards , some of them deaf or otherwise disabled, for many years . Pictures of the acts were driven out by a child pornography company .
The trial began in November 2004 and became the longest trial in Portuguese judicial history. About 1,000 witnesses and experts were heard in almost six years. The case was particularly explosive because politicians and other well-known public figures were charged. TV presenter Carlos Cruz, Casa Pia employee Carlos Silvino, lawyer Hugo Marçal, Casa Pia board member Manuel Abrantes, Lisbon doctor Ferreira Diniz and the diplomat and former Portuguese consul in Stuttgart, Jorge Ritto were convicted. They received sentences of up to 18 years.
Web links
- Ralph Schulze: Child sex scandal: “We are all guilty” in the Tagesspiegel on November 30, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Child molester judgment in Portugal. Endless suffering . Spiegel online , September 3, 2010
- ↑ a b Guilty! Portugal's largest abuse trial ends . Die Welt , September 4, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2015
- ↑ a b Prominent child molesters . Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 4, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2015
- ↑ Casa Pia defendants convicted . FAZ , September 3, 2010