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	Catholic Church in Colombia Looks into Sex Abuse Archdiocese of Bogota Has Begun an Investigation into Accusations of Sex Abuse of Minors at the Hands of Rev. Efrain Rozo and Others By Martin Barillas Spero News [Colombia] October 5, 2006 http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=123&id=5875& t=Catholic+Church+in+Colombia+looks+into+sex+abuse The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bogotá, Colombia, has decided to begin a careful investigation into accusations of alleged abuses committed by its priests and gave assurances that in each case "church law will be applied to those who are found responsible" or will "defend the good name of those charged." After a meeting in which participated Pedro Cardinal Rubiano, the Archbishop of Bogotá, and his advisors, the archdiocese released a communiqué in which it asserts that "the Catholic Church in Bogotá is party most interested in finding out the whole truth about the deeds that are currently being debated in public and which have been directly linked to certain representatives of the Church." The communiqué gave assurances that the Interdiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Bogotá will be responsible for carrying out the investigation. In recent days there were reports in local media of alleged abuse of minors, supposedly carried out over several decades by a priest identified as Efraín Rozo and other clerics. In related news, the Cardinal Primate of Mexico is facing a lawsuit filed by Joaquín Aguilar, in concert with the US group called Survivors' Network of those Abused (SNAP) by Priests, who accuses of the cardinal of protecting Rev. Nicolás Aguilar Rivera from prosecution for sexual abuse. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles California; Roger Cardinal Mahony is also party to the lawsuit and is accused of also harboring the alleged child abusing priest.
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