Shocking! If this is corroborated, then this is horrifying and damning! Sounds almost incredible or is this perhaps sensationalism? Are the numbers exaggerated?
Kudos to the French Catholic Church to commission such an investigation!
I remember that there were occasional, isolated reports in Germany about such sexual abuse by Catholic or Protestant clergy. Now you have to wonder whether such sexual abuse in Germany was also much more systemic and widespread.
Is it possible that some of these sexually abused boys later went on to abuse women or to have some sexual disorders? I am afraid this is very likely!
"The inquiry found the number of children abused in France could rise to 330,000, when taking into account abuses committed by lay members of the Church, such as teachers at Catholic schools. ...
The independent inquiry was commissioned by the French Catholic Church in 2018. It spent more than two-and-a-half years combing through court, police and Church records and speaking to victims and witnesses. ...
The report's release follows a number of abuse claims and prosecutions against Catholic Church officials worldwide.
The report, which is nearly 2,500 pages long, said the "vast majority" of victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.
It said the Church had not only failed to prevent abuse but had also failed to report it, at times knowingly putting children in contact with predators. ..."
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