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Mexico's top clergyman, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, was questioned by United States lawyers yesterday in a child sex abuse case that is a fresh blow to the Roman Catholic Church.
He was asked about charges in a US civil case that he had colluded with Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony to protect a Mexican priest wanted for multiple child rapes.
Rivera, whose Mexico City diocese is one of the world's largest, is accused of sending a priest to Los Angeles briefly, knowing he was a paedophile who later raped an altar boy in Puebla state in 1994. The priest is believed to be on the run in Mexico and is wanted on multiple charges of sexually abusing boys in California.
- Reuters
