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	Catholic Church Accused of "Trafficking" Sexually Abusive Priests By Karina Brown Courthouse News Service June 22, 2009 http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/06/22/Catholic_Church_Accused_of_Trafficking_Sexually_Abusive_Priests.htm LOS ANGELES (CN) - The Catholic Church sent a child-molesting priest to Mexico instead of defrocking him, and has spent "many years ... engaging in the international trafficking of known child molesting priests," shuttling them between California and Latin America, a man claims in Superior Court. The John Doe plaintiff claims that Father Nicholas Aguilar Rivera molested "numerous children" as a priest in Mexico in 1986. When parents and police confronted him, Cardinal Noriberto Rivera Carrera helped Rivers escape from Mexico by transferring him to a Los Angeles church, according to the complaint. There, Rivera "immediately ... began having altar boys and students from the parish school come to his rectory bedroom," the lawsuit states. When one of the children complained to a church employee, the church allegedly transferred Rivera a second time.
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