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Involved in this case. there were many other cases like father luke. >> a dom toir supervisor convicted in 2012 regarding previous abuse at a boarding school. yet, again there was ab opportunity to stop an abuser and yet again the salesians failed. spurred by concern, he could still be interacting with children, two of the boarding school victims agreed to speak with us. >> i was 12. everybody was 12, 13. suddenly at night, someone was trying to pull off my blankets. the day after i know i remem...

Salesians of don bos koe. second large etc. order in the world. and the very mission is help vulnerable children. in a yearlong investigation through europe and the united states. we found a pattern of behavior which so many of the salesian brotherhood protecting each other. moving alleged abusers from place to place. country to country. in some cases allegedly threatening whistleblowers and victims. across continents, across decades. an order meant to protect children but too many times hurts t...

Children, putting lives at risk. we came to the vatican to share the evidence that we were able to unearth over a year-long investigation, evidence of abusers being moved, evidence of refusal to defrock abusers, evidence of lives being destroyed. but many of the key institutions refuse to even speak to us. and that doesnt give much hope for the churchs commitment to transparency and change. how is it that even presented with evidence, allegations of a convict convicted pedophiles continued abuse...

>> we traveled back to belgium to share the evidence we have gathered with the salesian order. maybe we can get answers here. father has been handling allegations of child abuse for the salesian order for almost a decade. the orders work with young children he tells us complicates the question of where to relocate abusers. >> its one of the greatest challengers. what to do with abusers. we have to move them to another place. and that we dont have so much -- >> specifically in the case of father ...

Salesians of don bosco, the second largest of these institutions, a religious order whose mission is to help the most vulnerable children in the world. patrick wall was himself a religious order priest and to date has helped investigate hundreds of clerical abuse cases. >> my experience has been the salesians have the highest percentage of perpetrators of any religious order across the world. because of their focus. if a priest is allowed to go 20 to 30 years, there are several hundred victims p...

Was that you were an abuser and that it was -- >> its beyond -- so not true. its just not true. they painted quite a picture, though. >> oh, yes. they certainly did. with the help of a woman whose message, in a way, came back from the grave. >> "dateline" rurps returns after the break. rps returns after the break. eturns after th break. eturns after the break. with advil, you have power over pain, so the whole world looks different. the unbeatable strength of advil. what pain?

Wind was knocked out of me. >> reporter: she said the abuse began verbally escalating to when the abuser through a cell phone. >> we geth. i had tripped and fallen on the stairs. >> reporter: her struggle with domestic violence is hardly isolated. nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men in the u.s. are victims of severe physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner. >> stepping forward in such a brave way really enables other survivors to consider what steps they need to take in securing thei...

Recently announced what is known as project guardian, a nationwide extra strategic plan to reduce gun violence in part through improved background check enforcements. what is your thought on it? >> it certainly is a step in the right direction. but it should not be seen as the end of the path. any conversation that we have related to reducing gun violence needs to be focused on risk and accountability. we need to focus on who is at greatest risk with causing harm with a firearm and create a syst...

Several urged comcast to look into ronan farrows charges that the network caved to pressure in killing his harvey weinstein expose. they worried about the message it would sent to sexual assault survivors -- [inaudible] to conduct an independent investigation into the toxic culture that enabled abusers and silenced survivors. but they showed up for the debate anyway. now, as someone whos been critical of both networks for their handling of the weinstein and epstein outrages, i still have to ask,...

Plans to address with new proposals next month. >> you gave me this job, and were making progress on the things you hired me to do. but unless we deal with the ravages of crime and drug and violence, none of the other things we seek to do will ever take us where we need to go. >> the crime bill became lock em up, throw the key away, three strikes youre out. in their zest to govern and we can stop this, it was an overreach. >> the bill, the penalties for powdered cocaine and crack were different....