COSTA RICAN TIMES
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Judicial police in Costa Rica’s capital raided Roman Catholic church offices Thursday, searching for information about two priests accused of sexual abuse.
The raids on offices of the metropolitan curia and the national bishop’s conference were broadcast live on television, which showed officers from the judiciary’s investigation bureau taking documents and computers from two buildings in the center of San Jose.
The prosecutor’s office said the police were seeking information about priests Mauricio Viquez and Manuel Guevara and looking for clues to any possible cover-up of sexual abuse cases by San Jose Archbishop Jose Rafael Quiros.
An international arrest warrant has been issued against Viquez, who is accused of abusing two teenagers in 2003 and was expelled from the priesthood two weeks ago.
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