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for many italians, the church is as central to their culture as the family. more than 80% here identify as catholic, children embraced by it from baptism. and it can seem an unchallengeable authority. judging by other countries that have confronted abuse, it s thought there could have been hundreds of thousands of such crimes committed here. we ve set out to discover how they ve been concealed. well, the culture of silence around clerical sex abuse in italy means that it s very hard to find victims or survivors, as they call themselves, willing to speak, but we ve tracked down one not far from rome who says he was abused for 16 years by a priest, starting at the age of eight. he s never spoken to the media before, but now he s willing to talk, and we re off

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