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15 July 2018

Chilean police raid bishops' offices over abuse accusations - prosecutor

Chilean police and prosecutors investigating accusations of sexual abuse by clerics launched simultaneous raids on Friday on the offices of archbishops in two cities in the country’s south, officials said. Sexual crimes specialists from Chile’s investigative police unit questioned staff and seized documents in the offices of the Roman Catholic archbishops of Temuco and Villarrica in the region of Araucanía 450 miles south of Santiago.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-chile-abuse/chilean-police-raid-bishops-offices-over-abuse-accusations-prosecutor-idUKKBN1K331T