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Probe: Catholic Church in France had 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of them priests
2021-10-04
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in La Belle France believes 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — have worked in the church over the past 70 years.

The estimate was given by the commission president, Jean-Marc Sauvé, in an interview published Sunday in the newspaper Journal du Dimanche. The commission has been investigating for 2 1/2 years. Its full findings are scheduled to be released on Tuesday.

In the interview, Sauvé did not give a figure on the number of sex abuse victims but said the report does include a new estimate.

Asked about the commission's work investigating child abusers, he said: "We evaluated their number at 3,000, out of 11,500 priests and church people since the 1950s. Two-thirds are diocesan priests."
A little better than a quarter...
He said 22 cases have been forwarded to prosecutors for alleged crimes that can still be pursued. More than 40 cases of alleged crimes that are too old to be prosecuted but that involve suspects who are still alive have been forwarded to church officials, Sauvé said.

"From 1950 to 1970, the church is completely indifferent to the victims: They don't exist, the suffering inflicted on children is ignored," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "The periods that followed were different."

He added: "Our objective is to furnish a concrete diagnosis of all the abuses, to identify the causes and draw all of the consequences."

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Posted by:Fred

#6  11,500 seems a bit low. According to wickedpedia, "Total priests in 2006" (after a long decline): 20,523. In 1996 (use that for the average over the whole period): 27781.

If the working lifetime of a priest is about 30 years, scale that average by 2.3 to get 64,800 during that 70 years. Plus "church people."

I don't know what they mean by "church people", but it looks to me as though the total would be closer to 115,000 than 11,500.
Posted by: james   2021-10-04 10:09  

#5  ... or democrat.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-10-04 09:40  

#4  well if you are a criminal, your choices are the clergy or a 'public servant'
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-10-04 08:48  

#3  Wonder what the NEAs numbers are?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-10-04 07:16  

#2  French Catholic church had 'at least 3,000 criminal paedophiles' working in it since WWII, devastating new report reveals
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-04 04:57  

#1  Wunderbar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-10-04 01:29  

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