Cardinal goes on trial for abuse cover up
PARIS: A Catholic cardinal and five other people have gone on trial in France accused of covering up for a paedophile priest who abused boy scouts.
The case is France’s most important church sex abuse case to date amid growing demands in overwhelmingly Catholic France for a reckoning with decades of sexual abuse by the clergy.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 68, appeared in a Lyon court on Monday, along with other senior church officials accused of failing to protect children from alleged abuse by Bernard Preynat.
The top Vatican official in charge of sex abuse cases, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, is among the accused but will not appear in court because the Vatican invoked his diplomatic immunity.
After taking his seat in the front row, Barbarin held his hands together and closed his eyes, as if in prayer.
– BBC
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