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At least 330,000 children were sexually abused in France's Catholic Church between 1950 to 2020 with the attacks covered up for decades 'by a veil of silence', a damning report has found.
The head of the French bishops conference asked for a pardon from each of the victims, as he expressed his "horror" at the scandal. | ITV National News
The report said that an estimated 33,000 children were victims of sexual abuse in the past 70 years by 3,000 priests and other people involved in the church.
The church had shown "deep, total and even cruel indifference for years," protecting itself rather than the victims of what was systemic abuse, said Jean-Marc Sauve, head of the commission that compiled the report.
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