Catholic clergy abuse victim leads drive to shakeup establishment politics in Chile


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  • Monday, 27 Jan 2020

James Hamilton, leader of Party for Dignity, speaks during a breakfast briefing with journalists in Santiago, Chile January 24, 2020. Picture taken, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean sexual abuse victim who took on the Catholic Church has announced plans to form a new political party, one of several that has emerged since protests rocked the country late last year.

James Hamilton, a doctor who was one of the first people in Chile to come forward claiming he was the victim of child sexual abuse by clergy, has called his party Dignity.

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