BARCELONA: A former gym teacher at a Catholic school accused of sexually assaulting students went on trial on Monday in Barcelona, as a growing trickle of abuse allegations shakes the Church in Spain.
Public prosecutors are seeking a 22-year jail sentence for Benitez for allegedly sexually abusing four former students at the school. The first public accusations against Benitez in 2016 triggered a cascade of other complaints of sexual abuse at two other Marist schools in Barcelona. The Marist community was at the centre of a major clerical abuse scandal, which erupted in Chile in 2017 and led to the resignation of 34 bishops in the Latin American country.
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