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Bishops refuse to quantify the reduction applied and guarantee that “the rationale for assessing each case has not changed.”
Some victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church have already been informed by telephone that their requests for financial compensation have been rejected, a source from the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP) confirmed today.
Victims of sexual crimes committed by Church members who are not entitled to compensation have already begun to be contacted by telephone.
All individuals who submitted a compensation claim will be notified of the decision, whether it is positive or negative.
Victims will receive notification of the “duly substantiated” decision “soon”, the episcopal conference guarantees, without, however, providing details on the amounts to be paid.
The Public Prosecutor's Office accuses all the alleged perpetrators of jointly committing an aggravated rape and also of 27 counts of child pornography for filming and sharing videos of the sexual abuse.
The arrested man is 71 years old. The victim is 39 and has an intellectual developmental disorder.
A 33-year-old man is suspected of sexually abusing his partner's daughter. The girl reported him to a school psychologist she attends, and the psychologist then reported the alleged crimes to the authorities.
According to authorities, the incidents took place in the summer of 2025 at the suspect's residence.
Authorities seized hundreds of files “consistent with content of sexual abuse and exploitation of children”.
The Judicial Police say that, taking advantage of the influence he had over the victim, the suspect “subjected her to abusive sexual acts, increasing in severity and frequency, from the age of 10” until she turned 14.
The 65-year-old defendant was given a suspended sentence at first instance.
Investigators arrested a man who had a 10-year prison sentence to serve for sexual abuse of minors.
A 69-year-old man was arrested by the Polícia Judiciária (Judicial Police) in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood after being reported by one of his daughters.
Paulo Abreu dos Santos has been in pre-trial detention for one month at the Carregueira Prison Establishment. He was charged with child pornography and sexual abuse of children.
The victims are two boys aged seven and eleven. Portugal's Judiciary Police (PJ) says there may be additional victims.
The suspect had a prior criminal record for sexual offences and was arrested by the PJ (Judiciary Police). The abuses occurred last summer while the teenager was in his care and was exposed to pornography.
The Investigating Criminal Judge in Porto ordered the most serious pre-trial measure after he assaulted a minor relative in an abandoned house.
The suspect is a family member who was not living with the victim and used social media to gain the minor's trust. After obtaining nude photographs of the minor, he used them to threaten to make them public.
A 25-year-old man persuaded a 13-year-old girl to meet him and took the victim to an abandoned building.
Rui Pedro Moreira was a Chega candidate in Azambuja in the 2021 and 2025 local elections.
