Nuns Violent with Children at School in Caserta: Citizens Divided

Suspension from teaching due to accusations of child abuse. This is what is stated in the precautionary custody order signed by preliminary investigations judge Valentina Giovanniello, which triggered the suspension of Sister Josi Sapi and Sister Loyola Dionel, Indonesians, Sister Genovina Barete, and Mother Superior Anna Porrari of the "Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù" preschool in San Marcellino.
The news shocked the small town in the Aversa countryside, a village of just three thousand inhabitants where the group of nuns was very well known.
The news shocked us,” commented Mayor Anacleto Colombiano. “The facility has always existed in our territory and I myself attended kindergarten in that institute and similar cases had never been reported,” he added. There had been some complaints but they were not related to mistreatment of children who attend the institute. In the recent past, “a mother had asked to transfer a child from the school run by the nuns to the state school, but for other reasons that had nothing to do with the beatings. Otherwise,” the mayor emphasized, “we would have notified the police.”
Yet the accusations against the nuns are very serious, they involve slaps, blows to the private parts, bruises and archaic punishments, such as locking the most restless children in dark rooms. It is precisely these details that leave a bitter taste in the mouth of most people: "Commenting on an issue of this kind is always very complicated, we can do nothing but trust in justice, as we have always done, if there is someone who has made a mistake it is right that they pay", concludes the mayor. Even Don Antonio, the parish priest of the church dedicated to San Marcellino, which is a few hundred meters from the institute where the nuns still reside, has never heard complaints about the nuns who attend and animate religious celebrations within the parish. "I have been in San Marcellino for about two years and I do not know the sisters thoroughly, they have their life as consecrated but participate in the activities of the church, but I have never heard people complain about their activities. We hope - concludes the prelate - that everything will be clarified.