Italian Priest Arrested For Virtual Homosex With Underage Men
According to media reports, he paid 20, 30 or 60 euro, money sometimes taken from the Sunday collection plate. Police phone surveillance generated evidence that he made video calls through WhatsApp or Messenger to the teenagers "on a daily basis" asking them to masturbate. The police also found matching money transactions.
In one case, a teenager told him he needed the cash to buy medication because he was ill. In another case, the contacts were facilitated by a 17-year-old teenager's mother, 51, who is also accused of organising the prostitution of another young man. She is now under house arrest.
Esposito’s archbishop, Perugia Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, the presiding Italian bishop, said that if the accusations are true, “this story shows a shocking human, moral and religious degradation.” However, Bassetti is a follower of Francis' "new" homosex moral theology.
Both, Esposito and the woman refused to talk to the examining magistrate. Esposito's lawyer spoke about a blackmail by the boys who asked Esposito to give them money lest they would reported him to the police.
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