Priest Gets Life for Abuses in Argentina
LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — The first Roman Catholic priest to be charged for crimes committed during Argentina's dictatorship was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Former police chaplain Christian von Wernich was convicted on all counts after being accused of being a "co-participant" with police in seven homicides, 31 torture cases and 42 kidnappings during the 1976-83 military rule that critics say the church did little to oppose.
Fireworks exploded outside a federal courthouse, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group still seeking sons and daughters who disappeared during the dictatorship, cheered in a packed courtroom after Judge Carlos Rozanski announced the conviction and prison sentence.
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