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Priest from Spain in Church paedophile case – largest-ever in USA history
Monday, February 4, 2013 @ 11:01 AM

A SPANISH priest is among a list of 122 members of the clergy in the USA accused of abusing children in the 1980s, according to documents held by the archdiocese of Los Ángeles. A letter dated 1993 written to the Archbishop from a man who wishes to remain anonymous claims José I. Ugarte sexually abused him 10 years previously, when he was aged 17. According to the documents, the Archbishop back in 1983, Roger Mahony, and Ugarte came to an agreement that the latter would go back to his own country, Spain, to live.

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eggcup said:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 @ 9:36 AM

And were these evil bastards given the long prison sentences they deserved? The Catholic Church has been scandalous, only now admitting what happened, because they've been forced to. To send sick abusers of children to another location so that they can carry on abusing children is evil. To think that they think they can pontificate on what constitutes sin and try and take some kind of leadership on values and morals; it's a joke. It's about time people saw the real light and turned their backs on these hypocritical religions and learnt to survive without the nonsense that their evil representatives spout.

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