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In Rome, Deaf victims of priest sex abuse from Argentina going to CDF for their files to “test” Pope Francis’ new law abolishing papal secrecy.

Will also deliver to Vatican officials report detailing human rights violations by the Holy See in Geneva earlier this week.

Vatican officials in Argentina today refusing to cooperate with Argentine prosecutors in criminal investigations of sexual assault against deaf children.

Victims will then deliver report to Argentine Ambassador to Holy See and demand action.

Link to press event yesterday in Rome with testimony from survivors: https://www.facebook.com/196165787655588/posts/547511362521027/

Link to activities and press events in Rome February 16-22 https://www.ecaglobal.org/eca-actions-in-geneva-and-rome-2020/

WHAT / WHY
Deaf victims of childhood sexual abuse and torture by Roman Catholic clergy from Argentina, along with human rights attorneys and global […]

Deaf survivors to Pope Francis: You knew, and you did not act

It is estimated that nearly 300 deaf children were abused in church operated schools in Argentina and Italy over several decades

Pope could have stopped priests who were molesting deaf children in Argentina, survivors say

Groups just arrived from Geneva in meetings with UN officials

Survivors are asking for a public meeting with Francis to mark first anniversary of global abuse summit

Link to activities and press events in Rome February 16-22: 
https://www.ecaglobal.org/eca-actions-in-geneva-and-rome-2020/

WHAT
Deaf victims of childhood sexual abuse and torture by Roman Catholic clergy from Argentina, along with human rights attorneys and global survivors and activist organizations will provide testimony of human rights violations by Pope Francis and the Holy See. The groups are asking for a meeting this week with Pope Francis.

WHERE
Foreign […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

FEBRUARY 12.2020.

Deaf survivors to Pope Francis: You knew, and you did not act.

Pope could have stopped priests who were molesting deaf children in Argentina, survivors say.

Groups will travel to UN in Geneva to report human rights violations by Holy See.

Survivors then want public meeting with Francis in Rome to mark first anniversary of global abuse summit.

Link to activities and press events in Geneva and Rome February 16-22: https://www.ecaglobal.org/eca-actions-in-geneva-and-rome-2020/

Deaf survivors of clerical abuse in Argentina are asking for a public meeting with Francis on the first anniversary of the global papal summit.

The survivors will be in Rome February 20-22, following three days of meetings with United Nations officials in Geneva, where they will present evidence from their own abuse cases of human rights […]

JANUARY 30, 2020. Dear Pope Francis.

We write to you as deaf survivors of clerical sexual abuse in your home country.

We were raped, sexually assaulted and physically tortured by Catholic priests, nuns and lay people employed by the Company of Mary for the Education of the Deaf, a congregation that answers to the Vatican and to you

This situation involves almost two generations of children who were abused while in the care and safety of your Church.

Our story goes to the very heart of the cover-up of these crimes within our country. The crimes were not secret either to church officials in Argentina or to Vatican officials as proven in criminal investigations and prosecutions carried out in the city of La Plata and in the province of Mendoza.

This must stop. We will […]