One year after the diary of a Jesuit describing more than 80 cases of child abuse came to light in Bolivia, the Society of Jesus repudiated the accusation that it’s a “criminal organization” and that it shouldn’t be blamed for the crimes.
The plaintiffs, who suffered abuse between 1973 and 1995 in several schools run by the order, consider that these are crimes against humanity and that there is no statute of limitations on them
Following revelations in the press of abuse by a Spanish priest who has now died, the Bolivian justice system has announced that 35 Catholic priests had been reported for sexual assault
A Bolivian former seminarian who says he was the victim of a vast sex abuse network in the Catholic Church has told AFP of decades of "hell" meted out to children by men of the cloth.