https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian priest, arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor, allegedly told his victim that he would go to hell if he spoke out about the abuse. https://www.thelocal.it/20160615/alleged-paedophile-italian-priest-told-victim-he-would-go-to-hell Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:24:04 +0200 alleged-paedophile-italian-priest-told-victim-he-would-go-to-hell A controversial Italian priest awaiting a criminal trial for sex abuse of minors has agreed to pay €125,000 in compensation to the families of five of his alleged victims, Italian media reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160513/italian-paedophile-priest-abuse-victims-families-25000 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:41:17 +0200 italian-paedophile-priest-abuse-victims-families-25000 The archbishop of Milan has suspended a 46-year-old priest charged with paying a teenage boy for sex, a statement said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160326/italian-priest-suspected-of-paying-teen-for-sex-suspended Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:19:35 +0100 italian-priest-suspected-of-paying-teen-for-sex-suspended An Italian priest who allegedly posed as an American manager online has been arrested as part of an investigation into a global paedophile ring. https://www.thelocal.it/20150527/italian-paedophile-priest-posed-as-us-manager-online Wed, 27 May 2015 12:48:17 +0200 italian-paedophile-priest-posed-as-us-manager-online Anti-paedophile raids were underway on Thursday morning across Italy, with police carrying out search operations in 16 cities. https://www.thelocal.it/20150430/anti-paedophile-raids-in-16-italian-cities Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:09:26 +0200 anti-paedophile-raids-in-16-italian-cities A man in Naples has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing his 11-year-old son, while also trying to sell encounters with the child to paedophiles online. https://www.thelocal.it/20150312/boy-abused-and-sold-for-sex-online-by-dad Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:18:01 +0100 boy-abused-and-sold-for-sex-online-by-dad An Italian priest who admitted to sexually abusing a young teenage girl hanged himself in the sacristy - the cleric's changing room in his church - the diocese of Santa Croce in northern Italy said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141029/italian-sex-abuse-priest-hangs-himself-in-church Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:49:00 +0100 italian-sex-abuse-priest-hangs-himself-in-church The caretaker of a school in Messina, Sicily's third-largest city, was arrested over the weekend for allegedly abusing a six-year-old girl. https://www.thelocal.it/20140317/school-caretaker-abused-girl-in-toilet Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:12:00 +0100 school-caretaker-abused-girl-in-toilet Italy's highest court has overturned the conviction of a 60-year-old man for having sex with an 11-year-old girl, because the verdict failed to take into account their "amorous relationship". https://www.thelocal.it/20131230/paedophile-conviction-overturned-because-girl-in-love Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:57:00 +0100 paedophile-conviction-overturned-because-girl-in-love Italian police have cracked a criminal network of 56 paedophiles and confiscated 11,500 images and 3,500 videos, all involving children under the age of ten. https://www.thelocal.it/20131204/police-crack-paedophile-network-across-italy Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:34:00 +0100 police-crack-paedophile-network-across-italy