VATICAN CITY—The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex abuse victim after his pleas to be heard by Pope Francis were previously ignored, the victim told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The switch from a planned Skype interview came after the AP reported that Francis received a letter in 2015 from Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of Chile’s most notorious pedophile priest. Originally, Scicluna was to interview Cruz via Skype since he lives in Philadelphia. But Scicluna called Cruz on Tuesday, “on behalf of the pope,” and asked Cruz if he could do the interview in person, Cruz told the AP on Wednesday. Fernando Karadima, shown here in 2015, was sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for sexually abusing minors.

Source: thestar February 07, 2018 20:03 UTC