REUTERS - A Portuguese court, giving its first findings in one of the country's longest and highest profile trials, ruled on Friday that all seven defendants committed child abuse at a state orphanage. The defendants, including a well-known television presenter, a former diplomat and two doctors, are charged with being members of a network that systematically abused children from the Casa Pia state home for orphans. ...The judges will continue reading out their findings before announcing their verdicts and handing down sentences later in the day, ending a trial that has lasted six years.
REUTERS - A Portuguese court, giving its first findings in one of the country's longest and highest profile trials, ruled on Friday that all seven defendants committed child abuse at a state orphanage.
The defendants, including a well-known television presenter, a former diplomat and two doctors, are charged with being members of a network that systematically abused children from the Casa Pia state home for orphans.
...The judges will continue reading out their findings before announcing their verdicts and handing down sentences later in the day, ending a trial that has lasted six years.
