COLOMBIA
Colombia Reports
Police in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, on Saturday arrested a priest for the alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy.
According to the prosecution, the priest led a church in Los Pinos, a neighborhood in the affluent Las Americas district in the west of the city.
He was arrested on Saturday and surrendered to prosecution officials who will proceed with the trial.
The latest case of alleged child abuse by clerics adds to the “four or five” existing cases of alleged sexual abuse by priests, according to Colombia’s Catholic Church itself.
Secular entities have not made any pronunciations over the prevalence of sexual abuse of minors.
The Catholic Church that globally has faced a wave of criticism over the acts of pedophilia by clerics and the subsequent intended cover-up of many by church authorities.
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