The former director of a Catholic school in La Vega was remanded to three months of pre-trial custody for sexual abuse by the La Vega Penal Chamber Appeals Court. Priest Miguel Bienvenido Florenzán Ulloa formerly of the Colegio San Agustiano in La Vega had obtained his clearance in the case in a ruling by judge Lorenzo Vargas.
The Public Ministry said the priest is accused of committing sexual crimes, and physical and psychological abuse against school children. The accusations were placed after one of the victims, who is now 20 years old, pressed charges in 2017. The man had suffered through the sexual abuses since he was in sixth grade at the school, starting after he was orphaned of his father.
The investigations carried out by La Vega prosecutors under prosecutor Johanna Reyes Hernández made it possible to identify other children that had been victims of criminal offenses by the priest. It was determined that the sexual abuses were committed at the school, on school excursions, visits to different places in the country and during a trip abroad.
This was Florenzan’s second arrest order. The court of appeals acted after a La Vega court had filed the case claiming there was no evidence to back the claims by his accuser. But Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez backed the La Vega prosecutors’ appeal and concluded said that there was evidence against the priest showing very serious civil violations.
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5 March 2018
