Overview

• The Audiencia de Palma handed Pere Barceló a two-year-and-one-day prison term for abusing a six- to seven-year-old girl during catechesis in 2007–2008.
• Judges issued a 500-meter restraining order for five and a half years and ordered Barceló to pay €15,000 in moral damages to the victim.
• The court found sufficient evidence to overturn his presumption of innocence despite ruling that carnal access was not proven.
• The Obispado de Mallorca was held subsidiarily liable to cover the compensation if Barceló cannot fulfill the payment.
• This marks Barceló’s second pederasty conviction after a six-year sentence in 2016 and follows his expulsion from the priesthood in 2013.