"Abuse Victims Seek Int'l Court Case Against Pope"/Associated Press Article/National Public Radio Program

ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_INTERNATIONAL_COURT_POPE_ABUSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-13-08-46-18

NPR STORY
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140424290/sex-abuse-victims-want-hague-tribunal-to-investigate-vatican
"Clerical Abuse Victims Seek Justice At World Court"
--NPR Radio Story
by Sylvia Poggioli
September 13, 2011
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Associated Press Story =Sep 13, 8:46 AM EDT
"Abuse victims seek int'l court case against pope "
By MIKE CORDER and RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press
EXCERPTS:
Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests went to the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity.
"When a church has been left to its own devices it does nothing. It wouldn't even have the reforms it has now if these cases hadn't begun to bubble up and erupt in the public outside the confines of what the church can control," said Spees.
"These priests and church officials live by some other law," she said. "Somehow they're not held accountable like every other citizen of a nation."