The newly elected Pope Leo ID ‘ He faces accusations that he “turned a blind eye” when he was confronted with complaints of sexual abuse of children against priests in Chicago and South America, as the article writes in her article by her article. ‘Daily Mail’.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo 14th – who became the first Pontiff of North America, was accused by a group of survivors of not doing the right to allegations of abuse in the US and Peru. Complaints that were transferred to the cardinals who chose him, according to the report.

“Silence is a sin. It’s not what God wants to do. Jesus wants to stop these things, not to make a fertile garden to develop sexual abuse »stated in the middle Lopez de Casas, victim of clergy abuse and National Vice -President of the Survivor Network abused by priests (SNAP).

The report notes that Robert Francis Prevost did not deal with these complaints in Chicago, where he grew up, after the priest of the Order of St. Augustine, Fr. James Ray, had the opportunity to live in a monastery in Hyde Park, despite the fact that he had been abducted.

The new Pope allegedly did not inform the Directors of the Catholic School of St. Thomas of Apostolos, a elementary school that is half a square away from the monastery.

Prevost also faced criticism because he had not begun an official ecclesiastical investigation into the alleged sexual abuse carried out by two priests in the diocese of Chiclayo of Peru, whose led from 2014 to 2023.

Snap and other groups claim that they had informed the 135 cardinals about complaints. “We hope that with the election of the new Pontiff there will be convincing answers for these complaints”said Lopez de Casas.

“This is useful for victims everywhere, because we have this pope who will be at the center of publicity in the things he has been involved in in the past.”. Lopez de Casas, 65, added: “It was high on the Snap monitoring list to make sure it would not be selected for a pope. But now, here we are. “

Lopez de Casas grew up in Galveson, Texas and says he was abused by teachers at the public school there. His mother, who suspected something had happened to him, sent him to a parish priest in Galveson, who forced him to show him what the teachers had done to him. “Then I was abused by the priest,” he told the Daily Mail.

Although the child found the courage to talk about his abuse because his parents did not speak English, no one advised them to report it to the authorities.

The new Pontiff

The alleged victims claimed in their statement that, under the supervision of Robert Francis Prevost, in 2022 the Diocese downgraded the details and documentation of their allegations he sent to the Vatican, deliberately preventing further investigation and measures. They claim that the Church has silenced their reports.

Indeed, the medium said that Prevost had met with the victims in April 2022 and encouraged them to appeal to political authorities, while the Church would investigate their case. This research is reportedly “It was postponed due to lack of data and because the limitation period had elapsed.”