Pope’s Butler Sentenced to 18 Months for Stealing Documents
Source: Associated Press
VATICAN CITY The popes butler was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Saturday after being convicted of stealing the popes private documents and leaking them to a journalist.
Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre read the verdict Saturday two hours after the three-judge panel began deliberating the fate of the butler, Paolo Gabriele. The judge said the sentence was reduced to 18 months from three years because of mitigating circumstances, including that Mr. Gabriele had no previous record.
In his final appeal to the court, Mr. Gabriele said he leaked the popes private correspondence to a journalist out of a visceral love for the church and the pope.
In the courtroom was Mr. Gabrieles father. It was the first time a family member has attended his weeklong trial.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/world/europe/butler-gets-18-months-for-stealing-popes-documents.html
valerief
(53,235 posts)Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
toby jo
(1,269 posts)a woman get a life-saving abortion at a catholic hospital last year? He much preferred the let's watch her die outcome.
I guess when you've inherited a 1500 year long reign of torturing and killing folks who you don't see eye to eye with
you get a pass.
It's an offense to humanity that he's even allowed on the world's stage.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)If he had, he might have been subtly reassigned to a new diocese and had his record quietly sealed from public view.