Opinion: The Most Unpunished Crime on Earth By Sebastián Cuattromo Tiempo Argentina July 8, 2014 [Translated into English by BishopAccountability.org. Click below to see original article in Spanish: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/Argentina/news/2014_07_08_Cuattromo_Es_el.pdf On occasion of Pope Francis's meeting with clergy sex abuse victims, I think it's necessary to share the following appraisal. First: It must be pointed out that the Pope's gesture is the result of the decade's long struggle of those of us who were victims, operating in conditions of total adversity, and without the support of the institutions from whom we requested assistance. In my own case, this [requested assistance] includes Bergoglio himself when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Second: Judging from the stance that the head of the Roman Catholic Church now finds himself obligated to adopt, it once again becomes clear that, as with so many other struggles, the unity, perseverance, and activism of victims is essential to force leadership to change its position. Third: It's necessary that the dioceses of Argentina, with their tradition of hierarchy beneath the Vatican, respond fully to what their highest superior is demanding of them. Fourth and finally: I'd like to see that the Argentine government, which guarantees the constitutional rights of children, recognize that child sexual abuse is a scourge of the State, suffered by one in every four girls and one in every six boys. It is, as judge Carlos Rozanski said so well, "the most unpunished crime on the planet."

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