null / Torwaistudio, ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 20, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).In the developing sexual abuse of minors scandal involving Jesuits in Bolivia, a May 13 article in the Spanish newspaper El País implicated two other priests, Francesc Peris and Carlos Villamil, and also published the testimonies of eight alleged victims.The Jesuits asked the victims to make a formal complaint with the Society of Jesus and offered their assistance in filing a complaint with the public prosecutor. El País broke the initial story on the scandal April 29 in a report titled "Diary of a pedophile priest," stating that Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 minors in Bolivia, based on admissions found in his own diary.Peris, known as "Checho," and Villamil, nicknamed "Vicu," allegedly committed the abuse in the 1980s when both priests worked at the John XXIII school in Cochabamba, where Pedrajas also worked.Vill
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ACI Prensa Staff, May 17, 2023 / 13:25 pm (CNA).
Following the publication of a report by the Spanish newspaper El País that documented the serial sexual abuse of 89 victims committed in Bolivia by a Jesuit priest, new a.