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22 October 2016

Italian 'exorcists' arrested on molestation charges

A priest and an army colonel pretending to be exorcists have been detained in Sicily. Investigators have said they took advantage of ill women and sexually abused them.  A Catholic priest posing as a "healer" and "exorcist" was arrested in Sicily on sexual molestation charges, Italian media reported on Friday.  59-year-old Salvatore Anello is charged with inappropriately touching four adult women and a 12-year-old girl.
His case follows a similar one a few months earlier in Palermo, wherein Colonel Salvatore Muratore was charged with 10 counts of molestation while a member of the Renewal of the Holy Spirit Catholic community.

http://www.dw.com/en/italian-exorcists-arrested-on-molestation-charges/a-36111895