While the prescription applies to the facts alleged against Father Pierre as well as for the non-denunciation of these acts of rape and sexual assault, the alleged victims of the priest can no longer appeal to justice. A first compensation request was filed.
Abbot Pierre’s victims took several tens of years to dare to talk about their suffering. Unfortunately, at the time when languages were untied, the limitation period was exceeded for these alleged facts of rapes and sexual assaults, sometimes committed on minors. It is also exceeded for the facts of non-denunciation of the priest. So how can the victims, who will always remain “presumed”, can get justice?
One of them made a compensation request to the independent national body for recognition and repair, responsible for repairs to sexual violence within the Church, reports Franceinfo. Failing to be recognized as victim by justice, it may not be this body if compensation is well granted to it. According to Franceinfo, he is a teenager, who has become an adult, who accuses Father Pierre of “touching followed by an act of penetration”, a rape and sexual assault, which occurred at the beginning of the years 80 when he was 13 years old.
The Foundation rejects its name
The foundation founded by the priest and some of his relatives in 1987 no longer wishes to be associated with his name. The supposed actions of Henri Grouès, his real name, who died in 2007, will not be recognized as justice, but the organization has taken steps to change the name. It is officially called “Foundation for disadvantaged accommodation” since January 25.