2024-07-07 06:27:08
The investigation was left in the hands of the judicial prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Juan Manuel Escobar Salas.
The plenary session of the Court of Appeals of Arica confirmed that it decided to open a disciplinary investigation against Judge Reynaldo Oliva Lagoswho is linked to sexual chats with minors.
This was confirmed by the appellate court of that city, through a statement in which it detailed that the investigation was left in the hands of the Judicial prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Juan Manuel Escobar Salas.
According to the court, the prosecutor “must proceed in accordance with Act 108-2020 of the Supreme Court, on Investigations into disciplinary responsibility of members of the Judiciary“.
Member of the northern court since August 2023, Minister Reynaldo Oliva was involved in a series of sexually explicit chats with minorsaccording to a report by Biobío radio.
A decade later, after taking office in the Arica court, The judge was involved in a new complaint, this time for sexual abuseThe case is being investigated by the Northern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.
Oliva was the first celibate deacon
In its report on the judge linked to sexual chats with minors, the radio station reported that in 2012 the then archbishop of Concepción, Fernando Chomalí, appointed Oliva as the first celibate deaconwhile serving as a judge of the Criminal Court of Concepción.
However, the following year, On December 11, 2013, he was restricted from the permanent diaconate.
Days later, Oliva himself wrote a letter to Pope Francis, in which He asked for its reduction to the lay state; that is, that it would revoke its ecclesiastical rights and privileges.
According to the media report, the church later advised him to resign, because a woman denounced him for maintaining conversations “with erotic and racy language” with his minor son.