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Victims and relatives from the Antonio Provolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children, embrace after hearing a guilty verdict for their abusers, in Mendoza, Argentina, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. The court sentenced Rev. Nicola Corradi, to 42 years in prison, and Rev. Horacio Corbacho, to 45 years, for acts that occurred at the Institute in Lujan de Cuyo, a municipality in the northwestern province of Mendoza. The court also sentenced gardener Armando Gómez to 18 years in prison. (AP Photo/Marcelo Ruiz Mendoza)

Argentine victims hope priests’ sentences send pope message

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2019 file photo, Rev. Nicola Corradi, in wheelchair, and Rev. Horacio Corbacho, following behind in green, are escorted to a courtroom to attend their trial in Mendoza, Argentina. Judges are scheduled to rule Monday, Nov. 26, 2019, in the case of two priests who face up to 50 years in prison for alleged sexual abuse of deaf children at a Catholic-run school, a sister institution to a school that suffered a similar scandal in Italy. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Priests guilty of abusing deaf children at Argentine school

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA - Associated Press

Rev. Nicola Corradi, in wheelchair, is escorted to a courtroom to attend his trial in Mendoza, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. In late November 2016, police arrested Corradi after several people came forward with shocking childhood tales of sexual abuse, including cases of rape, suffered over years at the Antonio Provolo School for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in western Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Priests accused of abusing deaf Argentine students on trial

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA - Associated Press