Major report to expose sex abuse in France’s Catholic Church
The Hindu
The 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission comes as the Catholic Church in France, like in other countries, seeks to reckon with secrets that were long covered up.
Tens of thousands of people, and possibly more are believed to have been victims of child sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past seven decades, according to a major report due to be published on Tuesday.
The 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission comes as the Catholic Church in France, like in other countries, seeks to reckon with shameful secrets that were long covered up.
The commission president, Jean-Marc Sauve, said in the French press that an estimated 3,000 child abusers – two-thirds of them priests – have worked in the church over the past 70 years.