Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Pedophilia, Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Belo accused of sexual harassment
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belobishop of East Timor e Nobel prize for peace in 1996, he allegedly carried out a series of sexual predations against adolescents in a period ranging from the 80s to the 90s of the last century.
The accusation is launched by a Dutch newspaper, De Groenewhich reports in detail on at least one case in which the victim, at the time sixteen, reports that he was lured into the house of the prelate with an excuse.
Here “the bishop took off my pants, started touching me sexually and gave me oral sex,” he says. Paulo, the key witness to the newspaper’s investigation. Confused and shocked, the teenager would have fallen asleep at this point. Upon awakening, he “gave me some money,” and “in the morning I ran away quickly. I was a little scared. I felt so strange.” The abuse would have occurred to multiple victims over a long period of time.
“According to our research, Belo he also abused young people before becoming bishop, in the early 1980s, in the village of Fatumaca, when he was superior at the educational center of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), the congregation to which he belongs “, writes the newspaper which reports of having tried to contact the prelate, who would not have answered calls.
After the granting of the Nobelkeep on De Groenein 2002 “suddenly Belo resigns as head of the local church. The Dad he relieved him of his duties on November 26, 2002. He claims to suffer from ‘both physical and mental fatigue’ “.
In January 2003 Belo “leaves East Timor, officially to recover in Portugal. After speaking with the prefect of the time Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Rector Major of Salesian Congregationchooses a new post, he says in an interview with the Catholic agency UCA News“. After a stay in Mozambique,” he now resides in Portugal and was not allowed to travel on his own initiative to his home country, but first had to apply for permission in Rome. “
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