MALTA
Times of Malta
A court has ordered the continuation of a civil claim for compensation filed by 10 clerical abuse victims after it turned down the former priests’ request for them to contest the case.
The priests had failed to reply to the civil case within the stipulated timeframe so technically, they were prohibited from contesting the case.
In August 2011, Godwin Scerri, 78, and Charles Pulis, 69, were respectively sentenced to five and six years’ imprisonment for sexually abusing boys in their care at St Joseph Home, in Santa Venera more than two decades ago.
Mr Pulis was defrocked during the proceedings while Mr Scerri’s defrocking followed the court judgment, which was confirmed on appeal a month later.
Lawrence Grech, Joseph Magro, Leonard Camilleri, David Cassar, Noel Dimech, Angelo Spiteri, Raymond Azzopardi, Charles Falzon, Phillip Cauchi and Joseph Mangion filed a civil case in the First Hall of the Civil Court, calling on the court to liquidate the damages they suffered.
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