ROME
Big Pond News (Australia)
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse have asked three cardinals withdraw from the papal conclave.
Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse in Chile, Mexico and Italy have asked for three cardinals to withdraw from the papal conclave, accusing them of covering up crimes.
The victims in Chile say Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz failed to act on accusations that they were abused by the Reverend Fernando Karadima, who was long one of the country’s most popular priests.
They say the cardinal, who will vote for the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, declined to carry out a probe and refused to even meet them.
‘My clients say it’s incongruent and disrespectful to all the victims, not only Karadima’s but those of other priests who abused minors when he was an archbishop,’ Juan Pablo Hermosilla, the victims’ lawyer told The Associated Press.
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