Paris (Reuters)
More than 200,000 children have been sexually abused by French clergy in the last 70 years, according to a major study released on Tuesday by its authors. Have kept.
The head of the commission that compiled the report, Jean-Marc Sowe, said the church had shown “deep, complete and even cruel indifference” over the years, instead of defending itself against victims of military abuse.
Most of the victims were boys, many of them between the ages of 10 and 13, he said.
The report said, “Faced with this curse, the immediate reaction of the Catholic Church for a long time was to preserve itself as an institution and to deal with those who were completely, even cruelly, indifferent.” What a demonstration. “
