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	Brazil Priest, 83, Detained after Pedophilia Accusations Today April 19, 2010 http://www.todayonline.com/BreakingNews/EDC100420-0000038/Brazil-priest,-83,-detained-after-pedophilia-accusations SAO PAULO (AP) - Police have detained an 83-year-old Brazilian priest after a congressional hearing produced allegations he molested boys as young as 12 and a television station displayed a sex tape of him in bed with a 19-year-old. The pedophilia allegations against Msgr. Luiz Marques Barbosa are the most lurid of several sexual scandals to hit the Brazilian church recently, largely because of the videotape that has been widely distributed over the Internet. Sen. Magno Malta, the lawmaker leading the legislature's sexual abuse probe, said Monday that the detention late Sunday of Barbosa was a milestone in the fight against child abuse in Brazil. He said the investigation is not an attack on the church, but at suspected child molesters.
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