Harsh and incomprehensible twist in the Lute case. According to local media in Chiclayo, the victims of the priest Eleuterio Vásquez—known as “Lute”—were summoned in person without prior notification to their lawyer because Gambaro (the case instructor) had received orders to personally deliver them a very important communication.
What they expected to be a letter from the Pope with an apology and a way to address their situation turned into a scene unworthy of the seriousness of a canonical process: an anonymous ecclesiastical messenger handed them a dirty and folded sheet of paper, without an envelope, without an official seal or case number, in full view of everyone. On that paper, drafted without formalities and with a level inappropriate for the gravity of the case, it was communicated that the Pope had granted the grace of dispensation from the clerical state to their abuser.
The blow to the victims is devastating. Last September, they had expressly requested that, for justice’s sake, no dispensation be granted until a proper investigation was conducted and a sentence was issued. However, the Pope ignored this request: the dispensation was issued that same month and communicated only a few days ago, confirming that it was never rectified despite the claims of those who reported the abuses.
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For four years, the victims have exposed themselves publicly with enormous personal sacrifice, even facing questioning from part of a community that had idealized the abuser. Since before the Conclave, they have been questioned in the media amid an alleged political conspiracy, forgetting their pain. Today they receive a slamming door that culminates a process plagued with irregularities and omissions. The dispensation arrives without investigation, without clarification of the facts, without truth. It simply grants the grace of dispensation to the priest, requested to avoid an exhaustive investigation where many more abuses might have come to light (remember that he took the victims to a stay in a village and there are witnesses confirming that he took more children) and closes the file, as if nothing had happened.
This procedure, manifestly anomalous, represents an absolute nonsense. According to what Infovaticana has learned, the legal team accompanying the victims will imminently initiate a battery of actions before all possible instances to denounce this outrage to reason and any notion of justice.