Pope accused of crimes against humanity by victims of sex abuse

Complaint

of victims to the International Criminal Court accusing Benedict and three of failing to prevent the attackers

victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests accused the pope, the Vatican secretary of state and two other senior officials of the Holy See crimes against humanity, in a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (IPC).

Presentation, presented at The Hague on Tuesday, accuses the four men, not only does not prevent or punish the perpetrators of rape and sexual violence, but also to participate in the "widespread and systematic" practice concealment of sexual crimes in the world.

includes individual cases of abuse in letters and documents between Vatican officials and others show a failure to cooperate with law enforcement authorities seeking to prosecute suspects, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one based on the organization that represents the plaintiffs.

Pam Spees, human rights lawyer with the CRC, said: "The point of this is to look at higher altitudes reduces the magnitude and practices are the same. Whistleblowers are punished, the Vatican's refusal to cooperate with the enforcement of the law. You see the protection of priests and leave them in the ministry and the decisions of other children are raped and sexually assaulted. "

she said. "Not only the facts of the abuse, but the way the Church deepens sometimes irreparable damage"

• According to the document submitted by the RAC, the Pope, as head of the Catholic Church is responsible for the sexual abuse of minors by priests and cover-up of that abuse. The group claims that he and others have "a direct responsibility and top" of those crimes classified under them, like a military chain of command.
• The others named in the complaint are Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals and former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone Tarcissio, now secretary of state, who has served on the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the body responsible for dealing with cases of sexual abuse in the pope when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. and Cardinal William Lavada, chief of the CDF, including the handling of past cases of sexual abuse has been criticized in the past

Megan Petersen, Minnesota, is one of the two victims whose cases appointed U.S. were included in the complaint to the International Criminal Court. Petersen received $ 750,000 (£ 500,000) last week in a civil suit against the Diocese of Crookston, alleging that the priest, Joseph Jeyapaul, was repeatedly raped as a child.

Speaking in The Hague, where the complaint was made, said Petersen Jeyapaul: .. "He was a man of God who was very dedicated and I wanted to be a nun, I trusted him

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