PARAGUAY
GlobalPost
Will Carless
July 4, 2014
BOULDER, Colorado — Pope Francis will send a delegation this month to a city in Paraguay that’s been rocked by a priest scandal detailed in a recent GlobalPost investigative story.
The news of the trip comes two weeks after Paraguay’s chief prosecutor for youth launched an investigation into Carlos Urrutigoity, the problem priest featured in this site’s article.
Urrutigoity, who was accused of molesting young men in Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, has risen to a position of significant power since moving to the eastern Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este.
GlobalPost’s ground reporting there last month unleashed a flood of controversy over the priest’s continued work at the Paraguayan diocese and led local activists to call for Urrutigoity’s suspension.
He has denied ever molesting anyone. He said in a face-to-face interview with GlobalPost that he is a victim of a smear campaign.
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