In the province of Mendoza, Argentina, a court has reversed what many considered an incomplete reckoning: the 2023 acquittal of Kumiko Kosaka, a Japanese nun accused of abusing deaf and speech-impaired children at the Provolo Institute over more than a decade. The Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza, in a ruling spanning over 200 pages, has returned her case to a lower court for sentencing, where she now faces up to 50 years in prison. This moment belongs to a longer human story about the vulnerability of those who cannot easily speak for themselves, and the slow, imperfect machinery of justic
Argentina court overturns nun's acquittal in Provolo Institute abuse case
Dozens of deaf and speech-impaired children aged 4-17 were sexually abused over 12 years at a boarding school, with multiple perpetrators convicted and one nun's acquittal now reversed.