Follow-up: Mexican cardinal should be on trial in Mexico, says attorney

The lawyer of a Mexican cardinal accused of covering up child abuse in insisted that his client should not be tried in the U.S. “The plaintiff is Mexican, complaining about alleged acts that happened in Mexico City in 1994, and the suit is against Mexicans. Mexican tribunals should oversee this case,” said the attorney for Cardinal Norberto Rivera yesterday. However the lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles court last year alleged that Father Nicolas Aguilar sexually abused approximately a dozen alter boys in California as well as sixty more in Mexico.

Links- Guardian UK, The Latin Americanist, Los Angeles Times

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