The Catholic Church has allowed priests accused of
sexually abusing children in the United States and Europe to relocate to
poor parishes in South America, a yearlong GlobalPost investigation has
found.
Reporters confronted five accused priests in as many
countries: Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Peru. One priest who
relocated to a poor parish in Peru admitted on camera to molesting a
13-year-old boy while working in the Jackson, Mississippi diocese.
Another is currently under investigation in Brazil after allegations
arose that he abused disadvantaged children living in an orphanage he
founded there.
