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Pope to rule on Chile abuse report: Envoy

Vatican City: The Vatican envoy who was sent to Chile to gather evidence of sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church said it would be up to Pope Francis to decide on whether to release the report of their findings to the country’s civil authorities.

During a visit in February, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vatican’s top sex abuse investigator, conducted interviews with victims to compile a 2300-page report which he handed to the Pope.

It accused Chile’s bishops of “grave negligence” in handling allegations that children had been abused and said evidence of sex crimes had been destroyed.