A convicted child abuser has been beaten to death while playing in a music group in a church in Argentina.
Marcelo Fabián Pecollo was found guilty of assaults on children in 2010 and subsequently spent time in prison. However, he was released early and had begun to spend time playing the trumpet at the church in Moron, a suburb of the capital Buenos Aires.
The 42-year-old was performing in a concert at the church when a group of relatives of his victims burst in. They shouted that he was a paedophile, which prompted him to run out of the church, but he was caught by the group who beat him badly. He later died of his injuries in hospital.
The incident happened in late October but has only recently been widely reported, after Pecollo succumbed to his injuries.
Jorge Oesterheld, a priest at the church, told local media that his thoughts were with the abused children: "The boys not only suffered the abuse but now have their parents involved in a suspicion of murder... Really, if we think about those kids, it's a nightmare."
The Argentinian authorities are still investigating the death. By the time the police had arrived at the scene the perpetrators had disappeared.
