US priests accused of sex abuse get a second chance by relocating to Latin America

This is part 3 in a special series – Fugitive Fathers:
How the Vatican’s alleged sex abusers hide and preach in Latin America. Click here for more.
September 25th, 2015 -

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The Catholic Church has allowed priests accused of sexually abusing children in the United States and Europe to relocate to poor parishes in South America, a yearlong GlobalPost investigation has found. Reporters confronted five accused priests in as many countries: Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Peru. One priest who relocated to…