The Socialist Organization of Women Itaia of Goierri has met today at noon in Bideluze Square of Beasain, against his appointment as an auxiliary priest of the church of Santa María el Cerurado of the town, under the motto Liberates the impunity of the Church.

At the end of the 20-minute concentration in the rain, Itaia members read the following text:

“It is known that in the scout camps organized by the Church in the years 1994, 2001 and 2005, at least three minors were attacked by Kakux, a re-elected collaborating priest in Beasain. Juan Kruz Mendizabal accepted sexual abuse: the Church sent him to a monastery and publicly banned him from acting as a priest, as well as being with minors if there were no adults. However, he has been re-elected.

We see the Church as a reactionary institution that disseminates conservative values and practices such as criminalization of abortion, reactionary and traditional views, etc. The cases of pederastia in the ecclesiastical area mentioned should not be understood in isolation, to which, according to a study initiated since 2018, another 500 cases of sexual abuse by clergy to minors in the Spanish state should be added. We want to show all the protection to all the aggressors.

Taking advantage of the situation of vulnerability, violence against minors has been perpetrated with total impunity.

To this must be added that, in the case of women, we must be placed within the Machista cultural norm that characterizes capitalist society, whose objective is for women to become secondary subjects. Although the institutions are opposed to these aggressions, they find limitations to respond to situations such as long and confusing judicial proceedings, bureaucratic obstacles, total impunity for the aggressors, trials that are left in nowhere… This is the example of Kakux, whose case was filed by the justice alleging that it was prescribed.

This case also highlights the need for a structural solution to structural violence. If we want to end male violence, radical changes must be made in a society that normalises and expands all violence. To this end, at Goierriko Itaia we appeal to organize ourselves independently with the institutions so that women develop our own means of protection, starting struggles to end male violence. We must also develop effective responses to the aggressors to put an end to their impunity.”