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Wide of Hotel Clodio 2. Various set-ups of group who attended Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf run by priests in Verona and who claim they suffered clerical abuse at the school3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRome - 26 March, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Hotel Clodio \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various set-ups of group who attended Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf run by priests in Verona and who claim they suffered clerical abuse at the school\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni Bisoli, self-described victim of clerical abuse: \u003cbr/\u003e\"When I was 11, the sexual intercourse started, in the dormitory, in the toilets, very often we were sodomized in the toilets. It went on for four years, always.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni Bisoli, self-described victim of clerical abuse: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It used to last a few minutes, he pushed me, he then undressed me and looked at me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianni Bisoli, self-described victim of clerical abuse:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Another priest used to tell me ''Do not talk!'' (''shut up'', using hand gesture).\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up of hands\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of group\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Dario Laiti, self-described victim of clerical abuse:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was six-years-old when I entered the institute, after one year I was called by two different priests into a dormitory and they took me behind a white sheet and they sodomized me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up of hands\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Dario Laiti, self-described victim of clerical abuse:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I just want that those priests are sent away, I just want justice.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of group \u003cbr/\u003e12.  SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessandro Vantini, self-described victim of clerical abuse: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I was a kid, I was eleven or twelve-years-old, the priest called me, ''Do you want a sweet?'', and then he took me to a room upstairs and he kept me there all night long and then also three times a day.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up hands\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessandro Vantini, self-described victim of clerical abuse:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He was always looking at me, not at the others, he wanted me. ''What you want from me?'', I used to say. ''Let''s go to my room, upstairs''.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of group and photographer\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Verona - 14 September, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide STILL of Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf \u003cbr/\u003e17. Various close-up STILLS of hands of self-described victims of clerical abuse \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide STILL of institute \u003cbr/\u003eRome - 26 March, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of statements given by self-described victims of clerical abuse \u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of L''espresso magazine website showing map of alleged clerical abuse cases \u003cbr/\u003eRevelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly now - a year after the Italian case became public - is the Vatican directing the diocese to interview the victims to hear their testimony about the accusations, The Associated Press learned on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a signed statement last year, the 67 former pupils at a school for the deaf in Verona described sexual abuse, paedophilia and corporal punishment from the 1950s to the 1980s. \u003cbr/\u003eThey named 24 priests, brothers and lay religious men at the Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile not all acknowledged being ''victims'', 14 of the 67 wrote sworn statements and made videotapes, detailing abuse, some for years, at the hands of priests and brothers of the Congregation for the Company of Mary.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Friday three self-described victims detailed alleged abuse at the institute. \u003cbr/\u003e\"When I was 11, the sexual intercourse started, in the dormitory, in the toilets, very often we were sodomized in the toilets. It went on for four years, always,\" said 60-year-old Gianni Bisoli.\u003cbr/\u003e59-year-old Dario Laiti said he was six when he started at the institute.  He said that after a year he was \"called by two different priests into a dormitory and they took me behind a white sheet and they sodomized me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Wisconsin and Verona cases are the latest in a burgeoning abuse scandal on both sides of the Atlantic that now threatens to tarnish the papacy itself. \u003cbr/\u003eThe office charged with disciplining clergy was long led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and a church prosecution in the Wisconsin case was stopped after an appeal to Ratzinger.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Vatican strongly defended Benedict on Thursday and denounced what it said was a concerted campaign to smear him and his aides for a problem that Rome insists is not unique to the Catholic Church.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Vatican was responding to the release of documents, first reported by The New York Times, that showed how the pope''s former office told a Wisconsin bishop to shut down a church trial against the Reverend Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys from 1950 to 1975.\u003cbr/\u003eMurphy died in 1998, two years after Ratzinger first learned of the accusations, and more than 20 years after they came to the attention of the Milwaukee diocese.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile the Vatican has not directly addressed the Italian abuse case, first reported as part of an AP investigation last September, it bears marked similarities to the allegations brought in Wisconsin.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth involve some of society''s most vulnerable: deaf children for whom the admonition \"never tell\" is easy to enforce because they have difficulty communicating. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd in both, the major priority of church officials grappling with how or whether to discipline accused predators appeared to be protecting the church from scandal.\u003cbr/\u003eThe bishop of Verona, Monsignor Giuseppe Zenti, initially accused the former students of lying. However, after one of the accused lay religious men admitted to sexual relations with students, the bishop ordered an internal investigation. \u003cbr/\u003eIt found some abuse occurred, albeit a fraction of what had been alleged.\u003cbr/\u003eAdvocates for the self-described victims, however, said the diocese investigation was fatally flawed because no one interviewed the former students.\u003cbr/\u003eLast summer, the diocese forwarded its files to the Vatican office that prosecutes sex crimes by clergy, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was headed for years by Ratzinger, who issued a 2001 directive that requires bishops to report suspected clerical abuse cases to the Vatican, but makes no mention of calling police.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Vatican studied the file but took no action until February 15, when Cardinal William Levada instructed Zenti to interview the former students to determine if any action should be taken against the priests, diocesan spokesman the Reverend Bruno Fasani told the AP.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his letter to the Verona church authorities, Levada said Ratzinger''s old office, which he now heads, had reviewed the files about the alleged abuse and \"considers it opportune to proceed\" with interviews of the former students.\u003cbr/\u003eFasani said the diocese maintained that it did not interview the self-described victims because they never made a formal complaint to the bishop. \u003cbr/\u003eThe diocese also said it didn''t know how to contact them, even though they are all members of a Verona deaf association with ties to the church-run school.\u003cbr/\u003eMarco Lodi Rizzini, a spokesman for the accusers, scoffed at the suggestion that the diocese didn''t know how to reach the former students. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he spoke with Zenti twice about the accusations and sent the testimonies about the abuse to the diocese last year.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said the former students were more than happy to speak to 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