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Vatican trial for sex abuse in pope's youth seminary opens

by Nicole Winfield
| October 14, 2020 5:30 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For the first time, a clergy sex abuse trial opened Wednesday in the Vatican’s criminal tribunal, with one priest accused of molesting an altar boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary and another priest accused of covering it up.

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