PORTUGAL’S TOP TV CELEB ON CHILD SEX CHARGES

New York Post

Carlos Cruz, Portugal’s best-known TV personality, and six others have been charged withsexually abusing orphans. The trial began yesterday. Cruz, known as Mr. Television, faces fivecharges of sexual abuse and one of a homosexual act with an adolescent. One of the defendants is awoman and they are accused of molesting children at Lisbon’s Casa Pia orphanage. The other suspectsinclude an ex-ambassador and a former Casa Pia deputy warden. An ex-Casa Pia driver faces more than300 charges of procuring the children for the accused.

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