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Vatican City –
Although Pope Francis took steps to resolve a scandal of badual abuse in Chile, he did not act in a problem closer to him in the Vatican.
Seven years after the Vatican has ordained to all Episcopal Conferences around the world are developing guidelines to prevent such abuses, to take care of the victims, to punish offenders and to keep pedophiles away from the priesthood, the seat of the Church Catholic does not have politics like that.
Pope Francisco was updated in 2013 the Vatican's legal code to criminalize badual violence against children and last month the Vatican Court sentenced a former diplomat for possession and distribution of child badgraphy
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The absence of a policy became evident last year, after a teenager from the Vatican Youth Seminary accused in 2012
The Vatican police, which has jurisdiction over the territory, has never been invited to open an investigation. Several bishops, including Cardinal Angelo Comastri, vicar of Francisco for Rome and the archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, said they had investigated, but none questioned the alleged victim.
The student who filed the complaint, Kamil Jarzembowski, was expelled quickly from the seminary while the seminarian accused was ordained a priest last year.
The News Agency Associated Press learned that since then the victim has lodged a complaint with the Vatican Criminal Court and that the Italian ecclesiastical authorities have opened a canonical inquiry to the newly ordained priest .
These actions took place after Italian journalists Gaetano Pecoraro and Gianluigi Nuzzi exposed the scandal last year, prompting the Vatican to reopen the case.
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