The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

HORRIBLE REVELATIONS.

ATROCIOUS SEDUCTION OF 33 YOUNG
GIRLS BY A CARMELITE PRIEST.

The culprit is Don Gurlino, attached, in the capa-
city of second curate, first to the church of San Carlo,
afterwards to that of the Carmelite order. Amongst
his regular professional duties were, of course, those
connected with the confessional, and these duties
he violated in a manner so foul and so atrocious
that no less than thirty-three young girls would
appear to have fallen victims to his systematic and
scientific profligacy. Not more than forty years of
age, possessing a singularly handsome face and figure,
Don Gurlino combinc4 with the natural influence
wielded over the. mind of the youthful penitent by
a spiritual guide, the influence, not less natural, of his
own personal attractions. Both influences were skilfully
brought to bear in the exciting privacy of the confessional.
All the opportunities which it affords of gradually, yet
surely, tainting the mind were employed, and employed
with too fatal a success. The wretch was, it appears,
in the habit of accompanying his oval temptations with
the appliances and means of obscene books and lasci-
vious prints, to: heighten and accelerate their effect.
Working on the passions by a graduated scale of
literary and pictorial excitement, the curate of " St.
Charles" and the " Carmelites" could seize, for his
infernal ends, the exact moment when the =suspecting
confidence of girlhood prepared for him an easy prey.
Don Gurlino was at last detected by the very
means which he had employed. The relations of a
young creature, one of his latest victims, found in her
possession an obscene print, and insisted on her telling
them from whom she had procured it. The girl refused
for some time, but, yielding to their menaces, stammered
forth the name of her confessor. She added that
not she alone, but likewise several of her young friends,
had received from Don Gurlino immoral books and

prints, and, debauched by his arts, had yielded up their
honour to their spiritual guide. The relations, at once
communicated the facts to, and deposited the print
with, the district police magistrate, who lost no time
in communicating with the higher law authori-
ties, and these latter at once instituted criminal
proceedings against the priest. Although the trial
was conducted with closed doors, enough of the
evidence transpired to fill all Turin with horror and
indignation. The guilty acts of the criminal appear to
have extended over several years. The full extent of
his debaucheries during all that period cannot, of course,
be ascertained. One fact, however, is beyond all doubt
—that on the trial itself tlaixty-three young girls bore
testimony to the adoption towards themselves of the
wicked arts of seduction with which the criminal stood
charged.
On this overwhelming mass of evidence Don Gurlino
was found guilty, and sentenced by the criminal court
of Turin to seven years' solitary confinement. The
term of the sentence will, probably, be abridged by
natural causes. shame, if not remorse, has already
worked such fearful ravages on the prisoner that on
the last day of the trial he was hardly any longer
recognisabl —Aforniag Past.

ortiug 3uttliagent.e.

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