Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf

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Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf (Italian : Compagnia di Maria per l'educazione dei sordomuti) is a Catholic school for deaf children in Verona, Italy. [1]

The school was founded in 1830 by a priest, Antonio Provolo.

Catholic sexual abuse scandal

This school is one among many where former students recently made claims that they were abused for years by the schools priests. [2] Two priests, Fr. Nicola Corradi and Fr. Horacio Corbacho, and three other employees were arrested in Argentina in 2016 for abuse of children at one of the institute's schools in Mendoza, Argentina. [3] Corradi first faced accusations of committing sex abuse at the Verona campus in 2009 and was flagged by the Diocese of Verona in 2011 following months of hearings. [3] [4] On May 6, 2017, Argentine authorities charged Japanese nun Sr. Kosako Kumiko with abusing children at the very same Argentine school as well, [5] and also for covering up sex abuse committed by the other two priests. [4] On June 15, 2019, it was announced that the two priests will stand trial on August 5, 2019. [4] However, the trial took place in Argentina, [4] where they were jailed after being accused of sexually abusing 22 children at the Argentine school. [3]

On November 25, 2019. both Corradi and Carbacho were convicted. [6] Also convicted was one of the schools former gardeners. [7] Both Corradi and Carbacho received prison sentences of more than 40 years, with Corradi receiving 42 years and Carbacho receiving 45 years. [6] The gardener, Armando Gómez, was jailed for 18 years. [8] [9] [10] Apart from Gómez, several other school staff, including Kumiko, have been jailed for complicity since the abuse allegations surfaced in 2016. [11] At the time of the conviction, Kumiko was still being held in prison, but had yet to start trial. [8]

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Antonio Provolo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest best known for his work with deaf-mute children in Verona. He was the founder of the Institute for the Deaf as well as two religious orders dedicated to the care of deaf-mute children. Provolo was a noted musician and singer and put these skills to tremendous use during his life while also resorting to his own form of miming and sign language to better interact and educate with deaf and mute children to whom he dedicated his work. His school's work suffered after his death since those who followed him did not possess his charisma nor his miming skills, though the work of his orders spread across the globe. His school is now mired in sexual abuse allegations which continue at present.

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  2. ↑ "Church, deaf students square off on Italian TV | WWRN - World-wide Religious News".
  3. 1 2 3 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-29. Retrieved 2017-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Trial date set for Argentine priests accused of abusing deaf children".
  5. ↑ "Nun charged for helping priests sexually abuse deaf children" . Independent.co.uk . 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
  6. 1 2 "Two Catholic priests found guilty of sex abuse in Argentina". Al Jazeera. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  7. ↑ Dube, Ryan (25 November 2019). "Argentine Court Convicts Two Catholic Priests of Sexually Abusing Deaf Students". Wall Street Journal.
  8. 1 2 Politi, Daniel; Zraick, Karen (26 November 2019). "2 Priests Convicted in Argentina of Sexual Abuse of Deaf Children". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ "Argentina: Catholic priests jailed for abusing deaf children". BBC News. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  10. ↑ Calatrava, Almudena (26 November 2019). "Priests guilty of abusing deaf children at Argentine school". Crux (online newspaper) . Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  11. ↑ "Catholic priests jailed for sexually abusing deaf children in Argentina". France 24. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.

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