Hundreds of young public Casa Pia orphanage were raped and sold to famous people.
Now begins the process on the biggest scandal of the young republic. And nothing will ever be. Lisbon.
The boy points out that Bibi, the employee most affectionate Casa Pia orphanage, raped him the night of August 24, before taking him to a wedding party. The boy called Joel, is 17 years old, is very nice and to feel strong man smokes cigarettes and drinking whiskey. Bibi raped him when he was 13, in bed at a friend's house.
"I was paralyzed," said Joel "unable to react. The next morning Bibi asked me if I liked.
I did not speak anymore. "We are in Lisbon, at the" bairro "Padre Cruz, the poorest area of \u200b\u200bthe city, the most miserable apartment in the neighborhood. Joel's father is not there, there has never state, the boy takes his mother's surname.
Her name is Ana Paula, 48, 10 more than he looks, no one treats her with respect, no one offered her a job. Nobody would even have expected that this woman, with her stubborn complaints to law enforcement officers, did come to light the "Watergate" Lusitanian. The biggest scandal in the history of Portugal: the world of Casa Pia orphanage, where, before 1974, the years of fascist dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, hundreds of children were raped by employees of the school and sold to politicians, ambassadors, professionals and stars of the show. The orphans were engaged in feasts for pedophiles including the involvement of foreign diplomats; movies clandestine videotapes marketed throughout Europe, photographed in pornographic magazines in France. This is also the story of corrupt powers, where the powerful have helped to cover other powerful unspeakable perversions, because since 1976 the administrator of Casa Pia knew in 1981 they were informed the police and the then president, General Romalho Eanes. But nobody did anything, the allegations were destroyed, everything was sanded, Portugal won the first of paradise for pedophiles, Pia became home to the supermarket to buy cheap kids. Until
in September 2002, a reporter received an anonymous phone call. A voice told her the violence suffered by Joel. The journalist Felicia Cabrita is called, discovered the relationship between influential people and kids bought for 25 euro per performance.
This is the Watergate Portuguese. Joel's mother sensed that something was going on at Casa Pia terrible when the eldest daughter shouted to his brother: "Do not you dare, you're a girl." And Joel began to cry bitterly. The mother began recording erotic phone calls made to his son Bibi. After being postponed several times, is now starting the process behind closed doors on the "Bad Education" Portuguese lost three generations of orphans and children of poor people, educated in sex with adults by employees of the orphanage, now teens pedophile orgies, finished prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics, suicides tangled.
Some missing and never found.
A process in which seven people were charged, including the most famous Portuguese presenter, Mr. Television "Carlos Cruz, 63 years, the country's most experienced diplomat, former ambassador to South Africa, France , Unesco, Jorge Ritto, 67, former driver Carlos Silvino, known as Bibi 46 years. Then the famous archaeologist Francisco Alves, a doctor Joao Ferreira Diniz, who hosted a radio program Catholic Renascença and allegedly controlled that children were not sick with AIDS or syphilis.
There is also a woman among the defendants named Gertrude Nunes, has a villa in Elvas, near the border with Spain. Here at the weekend the boys were brought to their encounters with adults. There are 35 complaints for sexual harassment, even on a mentally retarded child and a deaf-mute, for Silvino, 13 for Support, six Cruz. Only Bibi's former driver is in jail. The other defendants were released after a period of preventive detention. He says no illusions Jose Maria de Jesus Martins's lawyer Bibi: "I fear that it will be one of those jobs where only the influential people will not be condemned.". He wants to confess and stating the names of powerful pedophiles who procured the boys. If you collaborate, Bibi might be released from prison in a cell instead of spending the next 25 years.
know what all the Portuguese Casa Pia: since 1970 a public orphanages, including 10 colleges and houses of the state. Today, 4,600 assists orphans and poor children. A view from the outside in the breeze clear of Lisbon, Pina Maniqui College, where he was interned that Joel seems a beautiful place. They call it "the university of Belém" because it is here, in the elegant district of Belem, where there is a dos Jeronimos monastery, where he was buried the poet Fernando Pessoa. The children enter and leave the institution.
Poor children recall the cars stopped to pick up his teammates. The sons of no one had a passion for the BMW license plate Carlos Cruz of New York or Ferrari red of Dr. Ferreira Diniz. The car also stopped in front of the tower of Belem, located some 'further, the Tagus River. A metropolitan area past the tower. One day a boy died mysteriously in a train. Has anyone thought about suicide, someone else for an escape from an attempted rape. Others have thought about a murder. On the left of Casa Pia is the most famous tea room in Lisbon, the Belém Antiga de Confeitaria. The owner died, he was suspected of pedophilia. Pedro Namora, 40, once a student of Casa Pia, eat a treat flaky pastry filled with crème brulée. Bibi was in the habit of giving "pastéis" he liked children.
He had a way to get the kids to the powerful. It began with gifts, shoes, sweets, tickets for the stadium, then take their children to ride them and stroked, unless you react trained them to sex until they were ready to be sold. Like all his comrades who have suffered the attention of pedophiles, Namora is also nice and kind. "I was 11 years," remembers "when Bibi tried to attack me. We were at the stadium, tried to shut myself inside the toilet. I managed to escape. " From small Namora saw the young men have sex in the shower. As an adult he married, had children and became a lawyer.
When the weekly Expresso published an investigation of Cabrita, former comrades tried Namora. They wanted to be defended by him for the abuse. "They came to my office from all over Portugal, they sat and said nothing, just crying." Some neighborhood away, in Campo de Ourique, journalist Felicia Cabrita drinking champagne and tells how it began: the anonymous phone call, the revelation of the violence suffered by Joel, Bibi its investigations, the discovery that since 1975 some professors of Casa Pia sought to sue the driver, the discovery of letters from students who rely sexual harassment. Felicia discovered that since 1982 the Minister for Social Affairs, Teresa Costa Macedo, knew all about the abuse at Casa Pia, but remained silent because he was threatened. Then a former student brought a videotape to the reporter. There appeared naked in obscene poses some of the orphans of the college. The home video was shot by a pediatrician. The police seized in the apartment of the doctor about seventy boxes of the kind .. The journalist is a witness of the process Cabrita Casa Pia. He says that in 60 years, the time of Salazar, the members of an American humanitarian arrived in Portugal on a private plane, protected by regime's secret police, used to export the orphans of Casa Pia in the East, with the excuse to enroll in vocational schools.
Felicia says that for several years, "Portugal, the poorest country in Europe, has become the land of conquest of a pedophile ring in Belgium, England, Germany. Casa Pia is one of more than one process. It will be a test for the young democracy of this country. At first all politicians condemned the abuses as horrendous crimes. Until Paulo Pedroso, a former labor minister in the government of the left, was jailed for four months, and the attitude of the newspapers changed. He criticized the abuse of preventive detention. Doubts arose about the stories of the boys. We started talking about drug addicts students prostituting themselves to get money for drugs. The "pasionaria" Felicia thinks that Portugal is a backward country "because, unlike Belgium, is more concerned to protect the powerful to save their children." The former minister Pedroso spent four months in prison. He was suspected of 15 rapes, has vowed to be innocent, was released, he returned to parliament, is accused in the process. Even Mr. Carlos Cruz television has spent 458 days in jail. He wrote a diary about his pre-trial detention, detainee is entitled 374. writes in the introduction: "I'm not a pedophile." His lawyer, Antonio Serra Lopes, said: "They wanted to trap at all costs some famous individual." It will bring 31 witnesses to testify famous. Hearings will be spectacular. A psychiatrist follows the young victims of abuse. Bibi also the driver begins to talk with a psychologist. Bibi was 4 years old when he arrived at Casa Pia. A 5
suffered the first sexual abuse by older boys. Then he was raped by teachers and teachers. Pedophilia was normal for him, like drinking and eating. Never left college. He liked to get the boys to the powerful, because he wanted to be a friend of the rich and famous. His lawyer says, "is a sick man."
is a bad story, but it is more complicated than it seems. Joel, who has not been my father, Bibi can not hate him for what he did: "The expression is just bad memories," he says. Even Pedro Namora, who has never had a mother, can not hate Casa Pia: "for me is my mother, I could never hate my mother."
SOURCE: Article by Silvia Grilli, appeared in the 49/2004 of Panorama.
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