A popular Italian actress has avoided a possible five-year jail term over some off-color comments she made about Pope Benedict XVI. An Italian prosecutor had vowed to take comedian Sabina Guzzanti to court on charges of religious slander.
At a July demonstration in Rome organized against the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Guzzanti said, "Within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be -- in hell, tormented by great big poofter devils, and very active ones, not passive ones."
Rome prosecutor Giovanni Ferrara initially threatened to prosecute the actress for offending the honor of the sacred and inviolable person of the pope. Today, however, Ferrara's office announced that the case would not move forward, since Italian Justice Minister Angelino Alfano decided not to proceed with the charges.
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(Source: ABC)