PARIS, France French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors spanning seven decades since 1950, a "massive phenomenon" that was covered up by a "veil of silence," an independent commission said Tuesday. The commission's two-and-a-half-year inquiry and 2,500-page report prompted out
A two and a half year investigation into sexual abuse within the French Catholic Church has found that 216,000 minors were victims of abuse from 1950 to 2020 – in what an independent commission on Tu…