MEXICO
IOL
May 29 2014
By Lizbeth Diaz
Mexico City – The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico has for the first time filed a criminal complaint against a priest accused of child sex abuse, after the Vatican ordered his removal, the Church’s lawyer said on Wednesday.
The criminal complaint was made public after Pope Francis said on Monday he would show zero tolerance for anyone in the Church who abused children and compared sexual abuse of children by priests to a “satanic Mass”.
The complaint was made last week in the central state of San Luis Potosi against Eduardo Cordova, a priest accused of abusing a 16-year-old boy, said Armando Martinez, president of Mexico’s school of Catholic lawyers.
If tried and convicted, the priest could face jail in a major departure from the Church’s long-held practice of dealing with such cases in-house.
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