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Vatican court convicts accomplice in leaks scandal

 
Published on Nov 10, 2012
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In this photo released by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the pope's butler Paolo Gabriele, right, looks at the judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre, second from left, reading the verdict in the Vatican tribunal, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct 6, 2012. The pope's butler was convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. A Vatican court has also convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the theft of confidential papal documents and given him a two-month suspended sentence. -- PHOTO AP

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A Vatican court on Saturday convicted a computer programmer working in the tiny state of helping Pope Benedict XVI's butler leak confidential papers in a scandal that has embarrassed the Vatican.

The court handed 48-year-old Claudio Sciarpelletti a suspended sentence of two months in prison with a probationary term of five years, meaning that if he respects the terms of his probation he will likely not have to go to prison.

Sciarpelletti's trial comes just weeks after the disgraced former butler, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for engineering the leaks of secret letters and memos from the papal residence.

Sciarpelletti has worked for the past 20 years in the Secretariat of State - effectively the government of the Roman Catholic Church - and was responsible for maintenance on all the computers used by Vatican employees.

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