Sunday, January 04, 2004
From Agence France-Presse 2004 01 01:10 people, including top political and TV figures, were charged with sexually abusing minors from a state-run home. . . .
Among those charged are popular TV presenter Carlos Cruz, whose career spans more than three decades; comedian Herman Jose, whose Sunday night talk show tops weekly ratings; and the former Portuguese ambassador to South Africa, Jorge Ritto.
Parliamentary deputy Paulo Pedroso, a former employment minister in the previous Socialist government and the spokesman for the Socialist Party until his name became linked with the scandal earlier this year, was also charged. . . .
Pedroso, who had been tipped as a possible party leader, was charged with 23 counts of sexual abuse of minors. . .
Others charged on Monday included a former director of [government orphange] Casa Pia, Manuel Abrantes; a doctor who reportedly carried out medical tests on the children before they were sexually abused, Joao Ferreira Diniz; a noted archeologist, Francisco Alves, and a 61-year-old woman, Gertrudes Nunes, who owns a home in southern Portugal where some of the sexual abuse was said to have occurred. .....---
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