MALTA
Times of Malta
A religious order is insisting the compensation request by 10 clerical abuse victims is time-barred and that it cannot assume responsibility for the actions of two ex-priests jailed for sexually abusing boys
The case started being heard today.
Following a request by the Missionary Society of St Paul, of which Godwin Scerri, 77, and Charles Pulis, 68, were members, the court decided that witnesses will be heard behind closed doors, but legal arguments will be in open court.
The order is arguing that it cannot accept liability for the personal actions of its members who were adults, adding it was not aware of what had been going on.
In August 2011, Mr Scerri and Mr Pulis were respectively sentenced to five and six years’ imprisonment for sexually abusing 11 boys in their care at St Joseph Home, in Santa Venera.
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