Italian victims of pedophile clerics gather
Associated Press, Verona, Italy | Sat, 09/25/2010 9:53 PM
Italian victims are seeking to have abuse carried out by Catholic priests declared a crime against humanity.
They launched the appeal Saturday during the first public gathering of Italian clerical abuse victims ever in a country reluctant to confront the Vatican in its own backyard on any issue.
Organizer Salvatore Domolo, a victim and ex-priest, says campaigners are looking abroad for solidarity because justice is hard for pedophile victims to come by in Italy, which has a statute of limitations of 10 years.
He says the fact that victims are only meeting face to face now in public shows that something is exploding in Italy.
