
More than 200,000 minors estimated to have been sexually abused by French Catholic clergy, inquiry chief says
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Members of the Catholic clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 minors in France over the last seven decades, a survey carried out as part of an independent probe into abuse within the church estimates, according to the head of the commission that produced the report.
The landmark report to be published Tuesday suggests an estimated 216,000 minors were abused between 1950 and the 2020; that number rises to an estimated 330,000 when including victims of abusers who were not clergy but had other links to the Church, such as Catholic schools and youth programs, according to Jean-Marc Sauvé, the president of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) which authored the report.
Between 2,900 and 3,200 pedophile clergymen are estimated to have worked in the French Catholic Church since the 1950s, Sauvé said in advance of the report's release.

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