URUGUAY
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Austen Ivereigh November 18, 2016
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Back in April, the Uruguayan bishops set up a dedicated phone-line to allow victims of sex abuse by priests to step forward and make complaints. At their plenary meeting Wednesday, the bishops announced that as a result dozens of cases have come to light.
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BUENOS AIRES – Four Uruguayan priests have been suspended for sexual abuse of minors following a Church-led investigation that has uncovered 44 accusations against 40 priests over 70 years.
The probe was ordered earlier this year by Cardinal Daniel Sturla, the Archbishop of Montevideo, following a three-part Uruguayan TV documentary series that claimed to reveal a cover-up in the Church.
The series, Santo y Seña, was inspired by the U.S. movie Spotlight, which tells the story of the journalistic exposé of clerical sex abuse in 2001.
In April the bishops created a dedicated phone line to allow people to step forward and make the accusations, promising that they would be investigated.
The bishops reported Wednesday that 44 cases have so far come to light, 18 of which referred to events more than 40 years ago, and 16 between 20 and 40 years ago.
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