A priest was arrested in southern Bolivia on Thursday (22) for alleged sexual abuse as authorities investigate the country's most significant clerical pedophilia scandal.
Government Minister Eduardo Del Castillo shared a photo of the priest, Jorge Luis Machicado, being transported in a patrol car from his rural parish in Tarija, located 650 kilometers south of La Paz, to the police headquarters.
Machicado is the third priest arrested since the scandal emerged in late April when a diary left behind by deceased Spanish Jesuit Alfonso Pedrajas revealed his confession of abusing minors in the 1970s and 1980s.
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