…At the press conference in Mexico City, some of the victims questioned the pope's commitment to fighting pedophilia in the Church.
"We demand that the pope, at the very least, live up to his word because we can all make headlines. Enough with the headlines," said Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean victim who said he feld "deeply betrayed" by the pontiff.
Julieta Anazco of Argentina said that when Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, he "never received anybody," despite requests by victims to meet him.
"We are all very sad and losing hope. We have asked for something effective to be done. We want (abusive priests) to be removed and tried" in criminal court, said Anazco, who was abused by a priest at a Church-sponsored summer camp in the 1980s.
The network of victims from the Americas said that the pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, secretly suspended 400 priests for abusing children, and that they faced Vatican justice without the testimony or knowledge of the victims and their lawyers.
Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said via video conference from the United States that Pope Francis should follow the recommendations of the United Nations, which said last year that the Church violated the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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