Pope Francis sends one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia as the Andean nation is being shaken by escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests.
Former Jesuit Pedro Lima departs El Alto international airport after landing in El Alto, Bolivia, Monday, May 22, 2023, as he travels to the capital La Paz to make a statement at the public prosecutors office related to a church pedophilia scandal. Lima denounced pedophilia by the late Spanish Jesuit Priest, Alfonso Pedrajas, and was expelled from the Society of Jesus in 2001.
The meetings in Bolivia “will be conducted in an atmosphere of profound closeness to all those who have been victims of the scourge of abuse in the Church,” the Episcopal Conference said in a statement., who is responsible for addressing these issues, and he is coming to provide some guidance on how we can handle this issue, listen to and support the victims,” said Monsignor Giovani Arana, the Episcopal Conference's secretary.
The Jesuit Society in Bolivia has apologized to the victims and pledged to support the investigation while denouncing Pedrajas' superiors for an alleged cover up. Many of the superiors are no longer in office or have died. Lima’s assertions were questioned by the lawyer for the Jesuits, Audalia Zurita, who said Lima "held a position of power” to denounce the alleged abuses when in 2006 and 2007 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly that reformed Bolivia's constitution and did not do so.
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