Don Livio Graziano, a priest of the Aversa diocese accused of repeatedly abusing a 13-year-old boy (now 15) entrusted to him by the parents.
This was announced in a statement by the 'Rete l'abuso', an Italian association of survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy.
The sentence became definitive after the decision adopted by the Court of Cassation. Don Livio Graziano also held the position - according to the association's note - of director of 'Effata Apriti' and a series of other psychotherapeutic communities for minors.
It was the father of the boy, a victim of molestation (a case for which the conviction of a priest, Don Livio Graziano, to 8 years in prison was confirmed in the Court of Cassation), who noticed a sudden change in his son after being entrusted to the community - a note from the L'Abuso network reports - and discovered what was happening during a check of the cell phone.
Reading the messages, he immediately became suspicious and by asking the boy some questions, he immediately discovered the truth. At the time of the arrest, the police found in the priest's room, among other things, a significant amount of cash, 107,000 euros.
Placed under house arrest, the priest, who was not prohibited from using the internet, continued to molest the 13-year-old.
The father, accompanied by the president of the Rete L'abuso, asked for an intervention from the priest's superiors.
Today the final verdict where the Court of Cassation, reaffirming the appeal conviction to eight years in prison, rejected the priest's defenders' appeal as inadmissible.
The thirteen-year-old and his parents, who constituted themselves as civil parties, are defended by the lawyer of the Rete L'Abuso, Mario Caligiuri of the Rome bar, while the priest by the lawyers Carlo Di Casola and Giampiero De Cicco.
The family - the note concludes - expressed 'joy for this hard-won sentence that has rendered them the justice that the Church did not'.