France Catholic Church sexual abuse report: 330,000 victims over 70 years
The president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauvé, said the estimation, based on scie...
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The president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauvé, said the estimation, based on scie...
A French commission has released an exhaustive report uncovering 70 years of child sex abuse in the country's Catholic Church. The 2.5-year probe looked at church, court, press and police files.
An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country’s first major accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.
PARIS (AP) — A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon.
The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and other people involved in the church, covered up over decades in a “systemic manner."