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Pope Francis is declaring that there’s not sufficient proof to open a canonical investigation for sexual assault towards Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet.
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The pontiff made the assertion immediately by the director of the Holy See press workplace.
Ouellet is going through allegations of sexual assault in a class-action lawsuit filed this week in Quebec Superior Court docket.
A girl recognized as “F.” accused the cardinal, as soon as thought-about a front-runner to develop into pope, of a number of incidents of sexual assault between 2008 and 2010, together with sliding his hand down her again and touching her buttocks at an occasion in Quebec Metropolis.
F. wrote a letter to Pope Francis in January 2021 concerning Ouellet and was knowledgeable that the Pope appointed Father Jacques Servais to analyze her allegations.
The Holy See press workplace says Servais discovered no grounds to open an investigation, neither within the letter despatched to the Pope by the accuser nor in different testimony collected.
