Carlos Pereira Cruz (born 24 March 1942 in Torres Novas) is a Portuguese former radio and television journalist and talk-show host whose career ended after his involvement and criminal conviction in relation to the Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal.
[1] Back in Lisbon, he attended the Instituto Superior Técnico where he enrolled in the electrical engineering program, but dropped out and started a professional career in Portuguese television and radio.
[6] In October 2011, in an interview with the magazine Público, he announced his imminent return to television on the real estate-focused cable channel House TV, but it never materialized.
[7][8] After a successful career, interrupted by a cancer operation,[2] he was arrested in 2003 and accused of paedophile offences in the Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal.
[9] In 2004, as an arguido ("formal suspect") involved in the trial, Cruz published a book of personal reflections, Preso 374.