Thursday, October 03, 2013

Church not helping Peru on paedophilia inquiry into bishop - prosecutor


http://cdn.larepublica.pe/sites/default/files/imagecache/img_noticia_440x264/imagen/2013/09/22/video-imagen-gabino.jpgThe Catholic Church has yet to help authorities in Peru who are investigating whether a defrocked bishop sexually abused children before Pope Francis forced him from his post in a poor Andean region, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

On September 20, the attorney general's office opened an investigation into Gabino Miranda, until recently the auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho in southern Peru, after a prominent bishop said the Church had kicked Miranda out of the clergy because of suspected paedophilia.