Chilean Police Make First Arrest in Church Abuse Scandal

Chilean police have arrested a former Roman Catholic Church official after he confessed earlier this year to sexually abusing at least five children, a state prosecutor said Thursday. The arrest was the first since authorities launched a major investigation this year into cases of abuse within Chile's Catholic Church, which Vatican officials accused in February of "grave negligence" and a cover-up in its handling of sex...

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