SPAIN
The Local
The Vatican has closed a probe into alleged sexual abuse of a boy at a school in northern Spain which had prompted intervention by Pope Francis, the school said on Monday.
The Vatican cited lack of evidence as its reason for closing the probe.
Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo this month published a letter sent by the Pope in December 2014 to the boy’s parents in which he said the Vatican was investigating the affair.
The couple filed a criminal complaint in 2013 for sexual assault and sexual abuse against a teacher at Gaztelueta school in Leioa, near the northern city of Bilbao.
The school is run by the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.
Their son, now an adult, said the abuse occurred in 2008 and 2009 when he was 12 and 13 years old, leaving him with emotional trauma.
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