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Italian victims of paedophile priests demanded to meet Pope Benedict XVI in an open letter published yesterday, accusing papal officials of blocking them.
“We have gone through all the official channels possible in order to meet you, but have been given nothing but evasive replies,” the letter from various associations of child abuse victims said.
“We are forced, alas, to admit the extent to which the victims of paedophile criminals are treated with disdain, as if they have the plague.”
The letter noted that the Pope had met people abused by priests when young in Australia, Britain, Malta, the United States and most recently in his native Germany, but not in Italy.
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