Ahead of papal visit, Spain pushes forward with reparations for church sex abuse victims

MADRID (AP) — In the 1970s, in a devoutly Catholic Spain still ruled by dictator Francisco Franco, Paula Alonso-Pimentel was sent for catechism at age 8 to a religious school in the northern city of Valladolid. There, she says, a Marist priest sexually abused her for a year in the school’s vestibul...

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