Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia amid sex abuse allegations
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According to the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Bartomeu’s visit was not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations, but was prearranged to follow up on the Vatican’s “progress in the prevention strategy”.
La Paz. Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crime investigators to Bolivia amid an outcry over a child sex abuse scandal involving priests. Monsignor Jordi Bartomeu, one of the leading members of the Church’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has arrived in Bolivia. According to the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Bartomeu’s visit was not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations, but was prearranged to follow up on the Vatican’s “progress in the prevention strategy”.
Bartomeu arrived in Bolivia from Paraguay, where he was investigating similar allegations against church officials. In 2018 he also led an investigation into abuse by priests against minors in Chile. Bartomeu arrived in Bolivia soon after the Spanish Jesuit Alfonso Pedrazas was accused of abuse. According to a private diary obtained by Spanish newspaper El Pais, Pedrazas allegedly abused some 85 minors at Catholic boarding schools in Bolivia in the 1970s and 1980s. Pedrajas died of cancer in 2009.
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