FILE PHOTO: Alleged abuse victim Juan Carlos Cruz speaks to the media outside the Vatican in Rome, Italy February 20, 2019. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has appointed a prominent Chilean survivor of clerical sex abuse to a Vatican commission which focuses on education to prevent abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
Juan Carlos Cruz, an international advocate for abuse victims, was abused as a teenager in his native Chile by a notorious paedophile, Father Fernando Karadima.
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