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Cardinal admits Catholic church files on paedophile priests ‘destroyed’

A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Catholic church files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed or never even drawn up in a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others. “Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,” German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a landmark Vatican summit on tackling paedophilia within the clergy. “Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated […]