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Posted today at Abuse Tracker:

Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope

VATICAN CITY
Miami Herald
BY NICOLE WINFIELD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.
In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment they have received by the Italian Catholic Church and the Vatican itself. Half of them are former students of a notorious school for the deaf in Verona where hundreds of children are believed to have been sexually assaulted over the years by two dozen priests and religious brothers.
The "Abuse Network" organization, one of the most active in Italy, said it sent a copy of the video to the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Monsignor Angelo Becciu, addressed to the pope. There was no comment Friday from the Vatican on whether it had been received or viewed.
In a letter to Francis sent last month, the Verona deaf victims called for a commission of inquiry to be set up as has been done in Ireland and Australia to investigate the depths of the scandal in Italy.
The Abuse Network has posted online the names of some 150 Italian priests it says have been convicted by Italian courts since 2000 for abuse-related crimes in a bid to show that the problem is very real in Italy. Yet the Italian bishops' conference has been slow to respond to the problem and only this year released Vatican-mandated guidelines for how to protect children.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:10 PM

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Abuse survivors still haunted decades on

AUSTRALIA

Echo Netdaily

Eoin Blackwell, AAP

For the past 70 years, Gordon Grant has rarely slept more than two hours a night.

It isn’t the memories of his two tours of Vietnam that keeps the former soldier awake in the dark.

It’s the nightmare he lived while in the care of the Christian Brothers at St Joseph’s Farm and Trade School, in Bindoon, Western Australia, that won’t let him rest.

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Priests with ties to Carol Stream area named in Diocese of Joliet sex abuse documents

ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life
By ED MCMENAMIN - emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including priests with ties to Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Itasca and Roselle, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.