Investigation of sexual abuse in Pope's old Diocese was severely deficient, superficial, and riddled with procedural errors

Investigation of sexual abuse in Pope's old Diocese was severely deficient, superficial, and riddled with procedural errors
The Church admitted Prevost's negligence in the Lute case: “The preliminary investigation was a farce. Very poorly conducted. Many errors. Very superficial.”
In a meeting with the victims of the abusive priest Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles, Giampiero Gambaro, the Church's official representative in the case of the pedophile priest from Chiclayo, acknowledged on April 23, 2025, the serious irregularities in the ecclesiastical investigation conducted under the responsibility of the then Bishop of Chiclayo, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, in 2022.
Gambaro, a canon lawyer appointed by the current Bishop of Chiclayo, Edison Farfán, as delegate to oversee the administrative penal process against Vásquez Gonzáles, openly admitted that the initial investigation was severely deficient, superficial, and riddled with procedural errors. This constitutes the first official …