Japanese cardinal denies knowledge of sexual abuse case

Japanese cardinal denies knowledge of sexual abuse case

MUMBAI, India – Cardinal Isao Kikuchi says he had no knowledge of about a case of a woman who was allegedly sexually abused by a priest. According to 64-year-old Tokie Tanaka, the abuse began in 2012 after she went to confession with a Chilean priest at a church in the city of Nagasaki. She told the priest she had been sexually assaulted as a child. The woman filed a civil lawsuit in 2023 against the Society of the Divine Word, saying the priest…