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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
The revelations in France are the latest to rock the Roman Catholic Church, after a series of sexual abuse scandals around the world, often involving children, over the past 20 years.
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.
Report from the independent inquiry says the "massive phenomenon" of abuse was kept hidden by a "veil of silence" for decades.
An independent commission report into sexual abuse in France's Catholic Church says around 216,000 children were victims of abuse since 1950.