Syria Scarfò, the former Sister of Polistena: “I, abused by the parish priest, decided to put my face on it”

John

By John

Heavy words such as boulders, capable of affecting everyone’s conscience in the deep and reopening the debate on a huge plague such as pedophilia. Between society and church, collective thought and private needs. The book made it a sensation “I reveal me” by Syria Scarfò, the former Sister of Polistena who, after years of painful expectation, managed to tell the violence suffered between 1991 and 1997 in his parish. At the center of the accusations an 80 -year -old priest from whom he would have committed both physical and psychological abuses. A long period of inner suffering “kept” but never elaborate: something horrendous with which to deal day after day, to the constant search for a point of balance away from the abyss.

The volume was published on March 15th. On May 2, Syria Scarfò met the bishop of the diocese of Oppido-Palmi, Msgr. Giuseppe Albertito tell, explain and explain itself. The day before yesterday, with an official note, the prelate firmly condemned the events that happened expressing the full availability of the diocesan church to collaborate. A very strong signal that has not gone unnoticed by public opinion.
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