
A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged in the Andean country in the wake of a pedophilia scandal involving a late Jesuit priest.
Milton Murillo, a Catholic parish priest at the Church of San Roque in the southern region of Tarija, was sent to pre-trial detention for three months during a hearing late Thursday, regional prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez Salazar said.