Italy's Catholic Church faces pressure for independent abuse inquiry


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  • Friday, 11 Feb 2022

FILE PHOTO: Victims of abuse by Roman Catholic priests at a school for the deaf in Argentina, their advocates and lawyers, pose to demand that the Vatican order Argentine Catholic Church officials to hand over documents concerning the school before another trail later this year at the Vatican, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Philip Pullella/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - At a trial under way in Sicily, a 28-year-old Italian is seeking justice against a man he accuses of forcing him to perform sex acts before going on to become a priest.

The victim says the alleged abuse, committed more than a decade ago when he was a minor and the accused was a seminarian leading youth groups, included forced masturbation and oral sex in sacristies and schoolrooms. The accused denies the charges.

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