A court in Argentina Buenos Aires to be precised on Saturday ordered The roman Catholic Church to pay $50,000 to a former seminarian.
The formal Seminary student Ruben Descalzo filed a lawsuit against Archbishop Edgardo Storni. claiming he sexually assaulted him in 1992 .
The court in 2009 found Storni guilty of the sexual assault charges against him and sentenced him to eight years in prison, but the sentence was overturned two years later by an appeals court.
The sentence was sent back to the lower court which was instructed to issue a new sentence against Storni, who died before the court could act.
Storni died in 2012, at the age of 75 without ever confessing to the crime he was accused of.
He gave up his position in 2002, and secluded himself at a property owned by the archdiocese.
Saturday's court ruling ordered the court to make fine payment of $50,000 within the next 10 days. It was not immediately known whether the church planned to file an appeal or not.
The breakthrough ruling is the first civil court judgment against the majority Roman Catholic church in Argentina, legal experts said.
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