LIMA — Victims of Latin America’s latest charismatic Catholic leader-turned-sexual predator are denouncing the Vatican’s handling of the case, saying the six-year delay and final resolution are anything but satisfactory for survivors of his sexual, psychological, and physical violence.

‘‘It’s really shameful,’’ said Pedro Salinas, who in 2015 disclosed the twisted practices of the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, and was himself a victim of Luis Fernando Figari’s psychological abuse.

Figari founded the SCV, or Sodalitium of Christian Life, in 1971 as a lay community to recruit ‘‘soldiers for God.’’ It was one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America starting in the 1960s.

The group counts some 20,000 members across South America and the United States.

Figari was a charismatic intellectual, but he was also “racist, sexist, elitist, and obsessed with sexual issues and the sexual orientation of SCV members,’’ according to a Feb. 10 investigative report commissioned by the SCV’s leadership.

The report, by two Americans and an Irish expert on abuse, found that Figari sodomized and humiliated recruits.

Victims first complained to the Lima archdiocese in May 2011. The archdiocese says it turned the case over to the Vatican immediately, but neither the local church nor the Holy See took concrete action until Salinas’s book, ‘‘Half Monks, Half Soldiers,’’ was published.

In 2015, the Vatican appointed an investigator for the group, then a ‘‘delegate’’ to the community. And on Jan. 30, the Vatican ordered Figari to live apart from the community, declining the SCV’s request to expel him outright.

The sanctions, Salinas said, amount to a ‘‘golden exile, where he can live comfortably with all his needs taken care of.’’ As a layman, Figari was not subject to defrocking.

In the decree, the Vatican’s congregation for religious orders defended the six-year delay in acting by saying the information it received had gaps and was inconsistent. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the initial complaints were anonymous, ‘‘no small matter with such serious charges.’’