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Wide pan of La Valletta grand port2. Long shot of fort and Maltese flag 3. Mid shot of street 4. Flags 5. Photo of Pope Benedict XVI in shop window 6. Mid of self-declared child abuse victim, Lawrence Grech in his living room,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide pan of La Valletta grand port\u003cbr/\u003e2. Long shot of fort and Maltese flag \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot of street \u003cbr/\u003e4. Flags \u003cbr/\u003e5. Photo of Pope Benedict XVI in shop window \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of self-declared child abuse victim, Lawrence Grech in his living room, tilt-down to newspapers \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up Grech''s T-shirt with \"Justice!\" written on it \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lawrence Grech, self-declared child abuse victim:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What happened to me it''s past, after 20 years, you know everybody is human and everybody can do mistakes, but what upset me is after 20 years this same priest is in the same convent and still doing the same.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up newspapers showing Grech when he was in a nuns'' orphanage and headlines related to his case\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up photos of Grech when he was a child and in a nuns'' orphanage\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lawrence Grech, self-declared child abuse victim:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We want to meet the Pope, or at least if there is no time to meet the Pope, at least during the Mass he apologises to us, not in generally, to us, the victims.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of Malta Catholic Church headquarters where the child abuse response team is based \u003cbr/\u003e13. Detail on front gate of church headquarters \u003cbr/\u003e14. Tilt down from cross to response team questioning room \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Caruana Colombo, retired judge and former head of child abuse response team:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In every case, in every single case, I make it clear to the person who comes, to the victim, the alleged victim, that he is at liberty to go to the police and to report the matter to the police himself.\" \u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up Code of Canon law book \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Caruana Colombo, retired judge and former head of child abuse response team: \u003cbr/\u003e\"In my experience the very great majority of people who made allegations insisted that the matters would not be divulged to the press or to the police. They insisted that it be kept in secret.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of page reading: (English) \"On cases of sexual abuse in pastoral activity\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot Granary square, where Pope is going to hold mass \u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid shot workers preparing altar \u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid shot Paul Cremona, archbishop of Malta \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close up cross \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Cremona, archbishop of Malta: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is a humiliation for us and we, as bishops of Malta, have put a declaration before our people, explaining our sorrow at this sin, especially since it was on minors, and which the lord Jesus Christ told us to treasure so much, and because it was also done by priests.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide shot of archbishop in his office\u003cbr/\u003eTen men who testified that they were sexually molested by priests at an orphanage in Malta said on Monday want to meet with the pope when he visits the country this week, as the local Catholic church announced that church tribunals have convicted four priests in separate cases of abusing minors.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 10 men, speaking at a news conference on the island, promised they would not protest the pilgrimage by Pope Benedict XVI that begins on Saturday in the predominantly Catholic nation.\u003cbr/\u003eLawrence Grech told reporters that he and the other nine want justice done and seek a meeting with the pontiff so that what they call a \"hurtful chapter\" can be closed.\u003cbr/\u003eThe men say they were abused in the 1980s and 1990s by four priests at a Catholic home for boys and want Benedict to condemn the abuse. \u003cbr/\u003eThey have alleged that, if they resisted sexual advances by priests, they were asked to leave the home, which was their only shelter.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, in separate cases, four Maltese priests have been found guilty of sexually abusing minors after their cases were referred to the Vatican by the Maltese Catholic Church Response Team, local church officials said.\u003cbr/\u003ePunishment ranged from not being allowed to exercise their ministry to limiting their pastoral assignments so they would not work with minors.\u003cbr/\u003eAll were placed under supervision, local church officials said, updating statistics it gave last week, when it had reported that it had received 84 abuse allegations against 45 priests since the team was set up in 1999. \u003cbr/\u003eSome of those cases date back to the 1970s.\u003cbr/\u003eNo details were immediately released on the cases that ended in church tribunal convictions.\u003cbr/\u003eMaltese Catholic church officials also said that a tribunal appointed by the Holy See is currently hearing cases against three Maltese priests, while the cases of another four are expected to be heard soon at the Vatican. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Maltese response team said it found grounds against two other priests, but those clergymen had since died.\u003cbr/\u003eOf the 45 cases, no basis for allegations was found in 19 cases, while the remaining 13 cases are still pending, the curia said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"In every single case, I make it clear to the person who comes, to the victim, the alleged victim, that he is at liberty to go to the police and to report the matter to the police himself,\" Victor Caruana Colombo, the former head of child abuse response team said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Maltese church said in a statement it \"feels that even one case of abuse is one too many.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGrech, 37, who claims he was sexually abused during the early 1980s and in the 1998s, said that, besides the pope, the men also want to meet with Malta''s archbishop, as well as with the Vatican''s prosecutor for abuse cases, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, 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