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A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest.
A teen was accused of abuse inside the Vatican. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest. An investigation months in the making, w/
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A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest.
By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli
July 12, 2021
VATICAN CITY — The warnings started coming eight years ago, sent to some of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church, alerting them to a potential sex abuse crime that stood out from other church cases.
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The profile of the alleged abuser, by itself, was unusual: not a priest, but rather a teenage altar boy, who was said to have coerced a peer to engage in various sex acts night after night over six years. And then there was the purported location: inside the Vatican’s own walls, at a youth seminary for the 15 or so altar boys who served the pope.
“Right now a boy is there who should no longer be there,” read an anonymous letter sent to Pope Francis and several cardinals in 2013, informing the just-elected pontiff of an alleged offender “20 meters away from where you sleep.”
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Chico Harlan
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Chico Harlan is The Washington Post's Rome bureau chief. Previously, he was The Post’s East Asia bureau chief, covering the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan and a leadership change in North Korea. He has also been a member of The Post's financial and national enterprise teams.
Stefano Pitrelli
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Stefano Pitrelli is a reporter in the Rome bureau for The Washington Post.
By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli
July 12, 2021
VATICAN CITY — The warnings started coming eight years ago, sent to some of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church, alerting them to a potential sex abuse crime that stood out from other church cases.
[Leggi questo articolo in italiano]
The profile of the alleged abuser, by itself, was unusual: not a priest, but rather a teenage altar boy, who was said to have coerced a peer to engage in various sex acts night after night over six years. And then there was the purported location: inside the Vatican’s own walls, at a youth seminary for the 15 or so altar boys who served the pope.
“Right now a boy is there who should no longer be there,” read an anonymous letter sent to Pope Francis and several cardinals in 2013, informing the just-elected pontiff of an alleged offender “20 meters away from where you sleep.”
{snip}
Chico Harlan
Follow https://twitter.com/chicoharlan
Chico Harlan is The Washington Post's Rome bureau chief. Previously, he was The Post’s East Asia bureau chief, covering the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan and a leadership change in North Korea. He has also been a member of The Post's financial and national enterprise teams.
Stefano Pitrelli
Follow https://twitter.com/StefanoPitrelli
Stefano Pitrelli is a reporter in the Rome bureau for The Washington Post.
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