The children told prosecutors the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly
raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary inside the small school chapel
in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their cries because the other children at the school were deaf.
The clerical sex abuse scandal
unfolding at the Antonio Provolo Institute for hearing impaired
children in Mendoza province would be shocking enough on its own. Except
that dozens of students in the Provolo Institute's school in Italy were
similarly abused for decades, some of whom allegedly by the same priest
who now stands formally charged of raping and molesting young deaf
Argentines.