When the Bolivian ecclesiastical investigators entered the room belonging to the Spanish Jesuit priest Luis María Roma Pedrosa, they found photographs of dozens of half-naked girls in every corner: between the pages of his books, in his personal agenda and on the hard drive of his computer. Many of them were cut out by their silhouettes; others appeared as deformed compositions, like collages, in which the faces, legs and arms of different girls were combined. Surrounded by all of this child pornography, the investigators — dispatched by the Church — realized that they were in the lair of a monster.
They had arrived at the Jesuit residence in Cochabamba in early-March of 2019, at the request of the leadership of the Society of Jesus in Bolivia. There had been a recent complaint levied against Luis Roma — known as “Lucho” — related to pedophilia and child pornography. The investigators’ mission was to gather evidence, interview witnesses and prepare a report with all their findings.
“It was horrible,” a source from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuit Order — explains to EL PAÍS. “There were dozens of photographs. An attempt was made to identify the girls by copying down the names that were written on the back of the photos.
.. we also checked to see if [names] appeared in the diary.
” “What diary?” asked the reporter. “Lucho wrote a memoir, in which he described everything: the names of the girls and what he did to them.” Between.
