Meet two women who uncovered clergy sex abuse in Colombia


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Cristancho said she was shocked by what she learned during the course of the investigation. Photo: AFP

They were working for a Catholic bishop and had clear-cut orders from Pope Francis himself – probe reports of pedophile priests in a city in Colombia.

What these two investigators – two Catholic women with experience conducting criminal probes – found was an utter bombshell: a network of predatory clergymen that sexually abused at least 20 people, reportedly taking turns with one of them.

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