BREAKING: French report: an estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over 70 years.
Olivier Savignac, President of "Parler et revivre" victims association speaks during an interview Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, in Paris. A major report released Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 is expected to reveal the extent of child sexual abuses within the Roman Catholic Church in France. It is estimated that about 3,000 perpetrators have committed such acts over the past 70 years.
The president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauvé, said the estimate, based on scientific research, includes abuses committed by priests and others clerics as well as by non-religious people involved in the church. He said about 80% are male victims. The report says an estimated 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — worked in the church during that period. Sauvé said the overall figure of victims includes an estimated 216,000 people abused by priests and other clerics.Olivier Savignac, head of victims association “Parler et Revivre” , who contributed to the probe, told The Associated Press that the high ratio of victims per abuser is particularly “terrifying for French society, for the Catholic Church.
Sauvé said 22 alleged crimes that can still be pursued have been forwarded to prosecutors. More than 40 cases that are too old to be prosecuted but involve alleged perpetrators who are still alive have been forwarded to church officials. One of Preynat’s victims, Francois Devaux, head of the victims group La Parole Libérée , told The Associated Press that “with this report, the French church for the first time is going to the root of this systemic problem. The deviant institution must reform itself.”“Some victims did not dare to speak out or trust the commission,” he said, expressing concerns that the church in France still “hasn’t understood” and has sought to minimize its responsibilities.
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