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Six pedophile priests are reported as fugitives

Xóchitl Álvarez/correspondent | El Universal

18:23Saturday 31 January 2015

The State Attorney General's Office did not provide El Universal with the full list of the priests with arrest warrants. (Photo: SPECIAL )

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The list of priests is headed by Eduardo Córdova Bautista who faces a sexual abuse lawsuit involving 19 minors.

The State Prosecutor of San Luis Potosí, Miguel Ángel García Covarrubias, reported that six priests accused of pedophilia are fugitives, including Father Eduardo Córdova Bautista, who faces a sexual abuse lawsuit involving 19 minors.

The list of priests is headed by Eduardo Córdova Bautista, former parish priest of Our Lady of the Annunciation and former legal representative of the San Luis Potosí Archdiocese. Córdova Bautisa is accused for the crimes of sexual abuse, rape, corruption of minors and deprivation of liberty.

He is also leading the most wanted list in the official website of the State Attorney General's Office, in which photographs of 16 suspected criminals appear. Furthermore, the agency requested the Interpol to issue a red notice to seek his location and arrest him.

The State Attorney General's Office did not provide EL UNIVERSAL with the full list of the priests with arrest warrants.

Other public cases of pedophile priests are those of Francisco Javier Castillo, parish priest of Sacred Heart in the municipality of Santa María del Río, and Noé Trujillo, parish priest of Our Lady of Solitude.

Martin Faz, social activist and legal representative of minors abused by Córdova, said they have also followed the case of Noé Trujillo, accused of sexual abuse.

He noted that the State Attorney General's Office has been remiss to proceed in Cordova's case. "There is a kind of mutual understanding between the Church and local government to keep things on a stand by," he said.

The prosecutor denied that Córdova's case has been shelved to benefit the priest, and added that Interpol's red notice is still activated. "We can say we are working together to find him" he said.

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