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VATICAN CITY — Victims of a Florence priest who was defrocked for sexually and psychologically abusing his young parishioners are demanding that his bishops be held responsible for keeping his crimes quiet.
The victims’ appeal is the latest sign that clerical abuse in Italy, long an issue so taboo that it was rarely spoken of, much less acted on, is increasingly getting public attention and forcing the Vatican to confront the problem in its own backyard.
