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Chile’s sex abuse whistleblower goes from pariah to Vatican VIP, says he will urge Pope Francis to dump ‘toxic’ bishops

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Juan Carlos Cruz, backdropped by St.Peter's Basilica, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Cruz, who is the key whistleblower in Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal, has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and says he will urge Francis to get rid of the "toxic" bishops and cardinals who have defamed and discredited him and other abuse survivors around the world.