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Cartagena Diocese to Investigate Child Abuse from 1950

The Leader
May 15, 2020

https://www.theleader.info/2020/05/15/cartagena-diocese-to-investigate-child-abuse-from-1950/

The Diocese of Cartagena intends to investigate the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable people that has been committed within the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2010.

To do this, a special episcopal delegation has been created, detail of which were announced on Thursday by the bishop of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, and his episcopal delegate, Gil Jose Saez Martinez.

“I have warned all priests of the importance of this investigation,” stressed the Bishop, “and that anyone standing in the way of possible victims will be committing a truly criminal act .”

Saez Martinez said that the new delegation has already attended eight alleged victims adding that that they will receive comprehensive care. “The problem is that we are attending to the victims, but only on the legal level. This is a situation that also needs psychological and spiritual support.”

The new episcopal delegate explained that the investigation of possible cases registered in the Region, in those six decades “requires time and investigation.

Saez Martinez said that, with the pontificate of Benedict XVI, the church has begun a change of direction that still continues. “We have had a century of looking the other way, but that thank God has now changed,” he concluded.

 

 

 

 

 




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