Chilean student confesses stealing Rodin sculpture

SANTIAGO, Chile - A 20-year-old art student admitted Saturday he stole a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, but the student was conditionally freed after claiming he was only testing security at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts.\nLuis Onfray took the sculpture "The Trunk of Adele" from an exhibit at the museum Thursday night, but the next day he went to a police station saying he had found it in a bush in a park near the museum, according to authorities. The statue was not damaged.\nProsecutor Andres Baytelman said that under questioning Onfray admitted he took the bronze as part of a plan "to prove the vulnerability of the museum."\nOnfray, an art student at the University of Arts and Social Science, was freed under a recently implemented penal system reform in Chile that allows conditional release for suspects while an investigation is ongoing.\nRodin, a French sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century, is best known for his works "The Thinker" and "The Kiss"