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What I saw changed my life forever,’ says Father Fortunato Di Noto.
Father Fortunato Di Noto first encountered a spark for his lifelong fight against the darkness of child sexual exploitation in the early 1990s as a young deacon. Thirty years on, his work continues to be a beacon of hope for victims worldwide.
“What I saw [online images in the early years of this work] changed my life forever,” the Sicilian priest told the Register. “It called me to a vocation, born from my baptism, to fight this tragedy without rest. Thus began my journey, and with it, the persecutions.”
In 1996 Father Di Noto founded Associazione Meter (Greek for “mother”), an apostolate dedicated to combating pedophilia and child exploitation. Their most recent annual report found that 2023 was the most extreme year on record, with almost 3 million photos and videos detected online.
Father Di Noto said, “Thousands of victims have been welcomed and listened to by Meter. All stories are full of suffering, where the sky is lost, and the abusers made them eat dust along with them — vile and dangerous snakes. I have listened to very young children and adolescents, but also adults who still live with this pain.”
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Father Fortunato Di Noto first encountered a spark for his lifelong fight against the darkness of child sexual exploitation in the early 1990s as a young deacon. Thirty years on, his work continues to be a beacon of hope for victims worldwide.
“What I saw [online images in the early years of this work] changed my life forever,” the Sicilian priest told the Register. “It called me to a vocation, born from my baptism, to fight this tragedy without rest. Thus began my journey, and with it, the persecutions.”
In 1996 Father Di Noto founded Associazione Meter (Greek for “mother”), an apostolate dedicated to combating pedophilia and child exploitation. Their most recent annual report found that 2023 was the most extreme year on record, with almost 3 million photos and videos detected online.
Father Di Noto said, “Thousands of victims have been welcomed and listened to by Meter. All stories are full of suffering, where the sky is lost, and the abusers made them eat dust along with them — vile and dangerous snakes. I have listened to very young children and adolescents, but also adults who still live with this pain.”
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Priest Wages War on ‘Vile Snakes’ Exploiting Children
What I saw changed my life forever,’ says Father Fortunato Di Noto.