Conversation btw mother + Pope Benedict XVI’s personal envoy was wiretapped. Tape + 6-pg settlement proposal R key pieces of evidence in a criminal trial opening next month in Milan. apnews.com/8d0cb3ef1cfa0b…
Prosecutors allege that Legion of Christ lawyers + priests tried 2 obstruct justice, + extort Martínez’s family by offering them money 2 recant testimony 2 prosecutors in hopes of quashing criminal investigation N2 the abusive priest, Vladimir Reséndiz Gutiérrez.
The terms: Martínez’s family would receive 15,000 euros ($16,300) from the order. But in return, her son would have 2 recant testimony he gave 2 Milan prosecutors that the priest had repeatedly assaulted him when he was a 12-yr-old student at order’s youth seminary in no. Italy.
