Former nun sentenced to 20 years for clerical abuse, sex abuse cover-up
MENDOZA: A former Catholic nun was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Argentina on Thursday over a notorious clerical abuse scandal involving a boarding school for hearing-impaired children.
A former Catholic nun, Kumiko Kosaka, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Argentina for her involvement in a clergy sexual abuse scandal at a boarding school for hearing-impaired children. The Provolo affair, named after the Antonio Provolo Institute in Mendoza, exposed decades of horrific abuse suffered by dozens of children.
Initially convicted in 2023, Kosaka was acquitted in her first trial in 2019, but the Supreme Court of Mendoza province overturned her acquittal in August, leading to a new trial. The facility's closure followed the initial complaints of abuse. Kosaka, a Japanese national now 51, left the order after the first allegations emerged and remains free pending legal challenges, though she is barred from traveling outside Mendoza province.
Victim's father Ariel Lizarraga expressed satisfaction with the justice obtained for the victims of the Provolo affair.
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