CNN —Like many victims of sexual abuse, it took years for Santiago to acknowledge that he was raped as a teenager.
I come here to tell the truth because the authorities have not allowed me to speak,” Figari told reporters in Rome.
At the age of 15, Figari told him he had great mental powers and offered to train him in ancient techniques, Santiago said.
Years later, Santiago first reported his abuse to SCV members and filed a complaint against Figari at Lima’s Archdiocesan Tribunal in 2011.
“I felt privileged, I felt listened to … (with) that phone call,” Santiago told CNN about when he first learned the Pope’s envoys wanted to meet him.
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