Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia amid sex abuse allegations

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crime investigators to Bolivia amid an outcry over a child sex abuse scandal involving priests. Monsignor Jordi Butremu, one of the leading members of the Church’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has arrived in Bolivia. According to the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Buterremu’s visit is not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations, but was already scheduled to follow the Vatican’s “progress in the field of prevention strategy”.

Butremu arrived in Bolivia from Paraguay, where he was investigating similar allegations against church officials. In 2018, he also led an investigation into the abuse of minors by priests in Chile. Buterremu has arrived in Bolivia soon after the Spanish Jesuit Alfonso Pedrazas was accused of abuse. According to a private diary obtained by Spanish newspaper El Pais, Pedrazas allegedly abused some 85 minors at Catholic boarding schools in Bolivia in the 1970s and 1980s. Pedrajas died of cancer in 2009.

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