Awful truth: Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
It found that 4,444 alleged incidents of child sex abuse had been reported to Church authorities.
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It found that 4,444 alleged incidents of child sex abuse had been reported to Church authorities.
A series of abuse scandals, often involving children, have rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades.
Most perpetrators have not been punished and the Church grants compensation on a case-by-case basis, without transparency
‘What the nuns said was sacrosanct, whereas our trauma was dismissed as stories’
Letter sent to chair of Oireachtas Children’s Committee, Sinn Féin TD, Kathleen Funchion