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BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The lawyer for former Argentine Catholic Archbishop Edgardo Storni says he is appealing his client's conviction for sexually abusing a seminarian.
Judge Maria Amalia Mascheroni sentenced the former Santa Fe province archbishop to eight years in prison Wednesday, the Buenos Aires Herald reported.
Former seminarian Ruben Descalzo had accused Storni in 2002 of sexually abusing him a decade earlier. Storni resigned his post in 2002.
The ex-cleric's attorney, Eduardo Jauchen, appealed the judge's ruling, sending the case to the Penal Appeal Court. Jauchen said the prosecution's case had been based on "rumors, suspicions and one-sided accounts," the BBC reported.
Storni, 73, could be placed under house arrest due to his age, the BBC said.
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