Pope has immunity in abuse trials: Vatican

2010/04/01 07:16:52 @Reuters: World News

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, accused by victims' lawyers of being ultimately responsible for a cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G9ePfff9zes:Zt95ZWqHeH4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G9ePfff9zes:Zt95ZWqHeH4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=G9ePfff9zes:Zt95ZWqHeH4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=G9ePfff9zes:Zt95ZWqHeH4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=G9ePfff9zes:Zt95ZWqHeH4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/G9ePfff9zes" height="1" width="1"/
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