Tag Archives: Paedophiles

This morning.

An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims from 1950 to 2020, a “massive phenomenon” that was covered up for decades by a “veil of silence.”

Via The Local:

The landmark report, released on Tuesday after two and a half years of investigations, follows widespread outrage over a string of sex abuse claims and prosecutions against Church officials worldwide.

When lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools are included, the number of child abuse victims climbs to 330,000 over the seven-decade period.

Meanwhile…

The report, at nearly 2,500 pages, found that the “vast majority” of victims were pre-adolescent boys from a wide variety of social backgrounds.

“The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence,” the report said.

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve had already told AFP on Sunday that a “minimum estimate” of 2,900 to 3,200 paedophiles had operated in the French Church since 1950.

Yet only a handful of cases prompted disciplinary action under canonical law, let alone criminal prosecution.

French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 sex abuse victims dating back to 1950s (The Local.fr)

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An interview that credits Pope Francis as saying about 2% of Roman Catholic clerics are paedophiles stirred controversy Sunday, as the Vatican sought to raise questions about the article’s accuracy and others called on the pope to take more action on the issue.

The interview by Eugenio Scalfari, published Sunday, quotes the pope as calling the rash of sex abuse scandals “a leprosy in our home” and saying the pedophiles include “priests and even bishops and cardinals,” according to a CBS News translation. “And others, even more numerous, know about it but keep quiet, they punish without saying the reason why. I find this state of things untenable and it is my intention to confront it with the severity it requires.”

The Vatican has pushed back on some points. According to Vatican officials, Scalfari does not record his conversations with the pope nor transcribe them word for word. News.va, an official Vatican news source, cited Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi as saying Scalfari quotes Francis from memory alone, and that the pope does not review the results before publication.

Any excuse.

Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are paedophiles? (Lauren Raab, LA Times)

Pic: Wikipedia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll1eyFGMHMU

John Gallen writes:

On the UK paedophilia scandal…. and the cover ups.(video only 48 secs)  From the You Tube poster: ‘Footage has emerged of a former Conservative MP suggesting to the BBC in 1995 that party whips might not disclose certain behaviour of colleagues including that “involving small boys.” Tim Fortescue (top), who was a senior whip in Sir Edward Heath’s government from 1970-73, claimed that MPs would “come and ask if we could help and if we could, we did” and he goes on…. “it might be debt, or it might be.. ummm.. a scandal involving small boys“.

Previously: A Boys’ Home Story

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6If7vTIf1A

One hundred domains are now on the hit list, which supposedly host forums that act as playgrounds for paedophiles. Data dumps have already started appearing on Pastebin, exposing alleged abusers’ email and mailing addresses, so it looks like Anonymous really isn’t holding back.

 

Anonymous Declares All-Out-War On Paedophiles (Gizmodo)