MALTA
Times of Malta
Monday, October 15, 2012 by
Christian Peregin
Maltese victims of clerical sex abuse have criticised new Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna for saying compensation should be paid to them by the priests who committed the abuse, not the Maltese Church.
“He is too soft to penetrate the Maltese Curia,” said Lawrence Grech, the spokesman of the group of Maltese abuse victims seeking compensation. “We are upset because he had promised to help us,” he added.
“I expected this to happen, because when you deal with the Maltese Curia, you always have to wait. He joined the Maltese Curia and he is now using their words.”
He said the Church should be held responsible because it had ways of knowing about the abuse and took no action to stop it when one of the priests returned from Canada, amid headlines.
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