Missing girl was abducted for Vatican sex parties - priest
Published: 23 May, 2012, 17:15
Pietro, brother of Emanuela
Orlandi holds a banner with her picture in front of St. Peter square as
Pope Benedict XVI leads the angelus prayer December 18, 2011
(Reuters/Stringer)
A teenage girl was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties by a gang
involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats 30 years ago, says the
Catholic Church's leading exorcist priest, who damned Harry Potter as
the “work of the Devil”.
Father Gabriele Amorth was appointed by the late John Paul II as the
Vatican's chief exorcist and claims to have carried out 70,000
exorcisms. He said after one of the parties 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi
was murdered and her body disposed of.
The outspoken priest
says the schoolgirl was snatched from the streets of central Rome in the
summer of 1983 and forced to take part in sex parties.
"This
was a crime with a sexual motive. Parties were organized, with a
Vatican gendarme acting as the 'recruiter' of the girls,” Father Amorth, 85, told La Stampa newspaper.
"The
network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the
Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle."