Priests in Bolivia 'saints by day, demons by night'

Priests in Bolivia 'saints by day, demons by night' – alleged victim

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 08, 2023 11:34 am

LA PAZ: A Bolivian former seminarian who says he was the victim of a vast sex abuse network in the Catholic Church has told Agence France-Presse of decades of 'hell' meted out to children by men of the cloth.

Pedro Lima said not only minors but also adults like himself who were training to become priests were subject to abuse in the South American country, often by clergymen who arrived from Spain.

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