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CHICAGO (AP) 鈥� A Peruvian survivor of clergy sex abuse brought her public campaign for reforms to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, saying he failed in investigating her case when he was a bishop in her home country and needs to step up now as leader of the world鈥檚 Catholics.

鈥淚鈥檝e been quiet since the pope has been elected,鈥� Ana Mar铆a Quispe D铆az said in Spanish at a news conference in downtown Chicago. 鈥淏ut I鈥檓 not planning to be quiet forever.鈥�

She appeared with members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The advocacy group sent a letter to the pope on Thursday renewing demands for more accountability on clergy sex abuse complaints and released documents related to D铆az’s case.

The Associated Press doesn’t name people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they consent to being identified or decide to tell their stories publicly, as D铆az has. She began speaking out on social media in 2023, and has faced threats and harassment in Peru because of it, SNAP officials said.

Ahead of Leo鈥檚 May election, SNAP filed a formal complaint against then-Cardinal Robert Prevost with the Vatican secretary of state, alleging he abused ecclesiastical power in his handling of two cases.

D铆az said she is a victim in one of those cases which overlapped with Prevost鈥檚 tenure as bishop of Chiclayo, Peru. According to the complaint filed in March by SNAP, Prevost’s diocese didn’t fully investigate in April 2022 when three women accused priests Eleuterio V谩squez Gonz谩les and Ricardo Yesqu茅n of sexually abusing them as minors.

D铆az said Thursday that she had spoken briefly with Prevost on the phone in 2020, telling him how she was abused by V谩squez Gonz谩les, but wasn’t given assurances that much could be done. All three women spoke with Prevost in person in 2022 about both priests, according to D铆az.

鈥淗ow much more damage can he do now that he is the pope?” she asked, speaking through a translator.

Following a protocol set by Pope Francis

But Prevost did everything he was supposed to do, according to the Chiclayo diocese and Vatican, including restricting the priest鈥檚 ministry, sending a preliminary investigation to the Vatican鈥檚 sex crimes office, offering the victims psychological help and suggesting they go to authorities, who archived the case because it happened too long ago.

Pope Francis had a mixed record on responding to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, bungling a major case in Chile in 2018 before reversing course, ordering an investigation and apologizing to the victims. Ultimately, it became a turning point for how he directed the church to handle cases of priests sexually abusing children for the rest of his papacy.

In these cases, the Vatican investigation found Prevost acted correctly in imposing preliminary restrictions on V谩squez Gonz谩les while Peruvian authorities conducted their own civil investigation. The Vatican office archived the case for lack of evidence, then reopened it in 2023 after it gained traction in the media.

Victims鈥� groups are demanding an accounting from Leo. Meanwhile, his supporters say the Chiclayo case is being exploited by his opponents to undermine him after he made enemies by helping shut down Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a scandal-plagued lay Catholic community in Peru.

No one has accused Leo of abuse himself, nor of knowingly keeping confirmed abusers in public ministry, which has been the biggest issue affecting the Catholic Church recently.

SNAP wants this accused priest removed ASAP

SNAP has asked for accused priests to be removed, which D铆az has sought as well.

The organization provided copies of letters sent in July between Peruvian church officials and D铆az. In them, Peruvian church officials say V谩squez Gonz谩les requested earlier this year 鈥渢o be dispensed from the obligations arising from his ordination as a priest and to leave the clerical state.鈥�

The process would take at least six months to complete, according to the letters. D铆az said that’s too long.

Fidel Purisaca, director of communications for the Diocese of Chiclayo, neither confirmed nor denied V谩squez Gonz谩les’ request. 鈥淭hat is a confidential matter between the priest, the bishop, and the Vatican Dicastery,鈥� he told The Associated Press in a WhatsApp message.

The diocese said Yesqu茅n was too sick to continue his ministry, and neither priest has commented publicly on the accusations.

While in Chicago, D铆az did interviews with Spanish language media and for podcasts. She also appeared at SNAP鈥檚 annual conference in Pennsylvania last week.

Now 29 and a mother of two young children, D铆az said she still isn’t always ready to talk about it. But she said something changed when her daughter turned 1.

鈥淓verything came back to me about the abuse,鈥� she said, wiping tears at times. 鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 leave her alone. Since then it鈥檚 been a real fight for me to be able to leave them alone.鈥�

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Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield in Rome and Franklin Brice帽o in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.