Vatican official sent to Bolivia amid abuse allegations.

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators, Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, to Bolivia to provide guidance on how to handle the escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests. The visit comes as a former Jesuit seminarian, Pedro Lima, arrived in Bolivia to testify about alleged cases of abuse. The Prosecutor’s Office has initiated an investigation into the case of Spanish Jesuit Alfonso Pedrajas, who allegedly abused about 85 minors in Catholic boarding schools in Bolivia in the 1970s and 1980s. The Jesuit Society in Bolivia has apologized to the victims and pledged to support the investigation while denouncing Pedrajas’ superiors for an alleged cover-up.