Reply #10: Pican was given a three month suspended sentence and fined one franc.

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So the court was unwilling to exonerate him of his failure to report but also unwilling to inflict any substantial punishment. Pican's argument has been that the incidents became known to him through the confessional ande were therefore privileged. The abusing priest earned an eighteen year sentence. The letter of Castrillón to Pican can be found translated, with unsympathetic commentary, here, where it is also noted that Castrillón explains his letter as approving of the Pican's refusing to break the confessional seal