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Malta Independent

Sexual abuse by priest: Eight years before Curia Response Team is too long – Bishop Scicluna

Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna said that having a case of alleged sexual abuse by a priest taking eight years or more before the Curia’s Response Team without a decision being taken is way too long, both for the victims as well as the priests involved.

Speaking on Xarabank on Friday following the story published in The Malta Independent on Wednesday about Fr Charles Fenech – accused of sexually abusing a number of women – Mgr Scicluna said that there should be an effort for such cases to be resolved in a more expedient way.

He said that he had learnt about the case via the media and said that it was a shock for him to hear that one of his colleagues was in such a predicament. He said that…