US EditionToulouse Archbishop Faces Outrage for Appointing Abuser to Diocesan Post
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Toulouse archbishop faces outrage for appointing abuser to diocesan post
The Archbishop of Toulouse appointed a priest who served a prison sentence for raping a minor as diocesan chancellor and episcopal delegate for marriage. Archbishop Guy de Kerimel said that by appointing Fr Dominique Spina to the post he had “chosen the path of mercy”. In 2006, Spina was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student while serving as his spiritual director in the 1990s at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school at Lest…
Sentenced to five years in prison (one of which was suspended) for rape of a minor by a person in authority in 2005 and then on appeal in 2006, priest Dominique Spina has never been removed from the Church. He has even just been promoted to chancellor of the diocese of Toulouse.
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