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17 June 2016

Abuse allegations follow leader of Peruvian Catholic sect to Rome

Luis Fernando Figari’s Sodalitium of Christian Life answered only to the Vatican but his decades of alleged physical and sexual abuse are likely to go unpunished.  Only the faint sound of shuffling feet could be heard behind the heavy wooden door of the apartment in Rome where Luis Fernando Figari has lived since 2010. And then, silence.
Close by, another tenant in the upscale apartment building – which sits a short walk from Campo de’ Fiori in the centre of the city – vaguely recognised a picture of Figari taken decades ago, which showed him standing beside Pope John Paul II. She had seen him around, but only rarely.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/16/peru-catholic-sect-sexual-physical-abuse-allegations-luis-fernando-figari-sodalitium