Vatican under global scrutiny after UN sex abuse report

[News Bandit]

VATICAN CITY - The UN's damning report on the Vatican's handling of child sex abuse cases has turned up the pressure on the Church to convince a sceptical international community it has adopted a zero-tolerance approach.

 

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[Billyboy294]

UN Report on Priest Abuse.

 

The UN Report expressed "serious concern that in dealing with child victims of different forms of abuse, the Holy See has systematically placed preservation of the reputation of the Church and the alleged offender over the protection of child victims".

 

BISHOPS NOT MADE ACCOUNTABLE

 

While several bishops have resigned after abuse scandals in their dioceses, victims' groups say the Vatican must make bishops legally accountable for alleged cover-ups.

"If the pope is serious about turning the page on this scandal, he should immediately dismiss any bishop who oversaw a diocese in which a priest who abused children was shielded from the civil authorities," said Jon O'Brien, president of the U.S. lobby group Catholics for Choice.

 

The report said Francis's commission should invite outside experts and victims to participate in an investigation of abusers "as well as the conduct of the Catholic hierarchy in dealing with them".

 

Miguel Hurtado, who was sexually abused by a priest in Spain when he was 16 and travelled to Geneva for the report's release, said he felt emotional and vindicated.

"Many times, victims were disbelieved. They doubted our stories, they doubted our motives. They thought that our motives were because we were after money or destroying or attacking the Church," the 31-year-old told Reuters.

 

At a stormy grilling by the committee in Geneva last month, the Holy See's delegation, answering questions from an international rights panel for the first time since the scandals broke about 15 years ago, denied allegations of a cover-up and said the Church had set clear guidelines to protect children from predator priests.

 

Wednesday's report called for an internal investigation of the Magdalene Laundries and similar institutions so that those who were responsible could be prosecuted, and "full compensation" could be paid to victims and families.

 

The committee said the Holy See must hand over an archive of evidence about the abuse of tens of thousands of children and take measures to prevent a repeat of cases such as the scandal of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, where girls were forced to work in church-run institutions.

 

The Commitee had asked for the documents but were turned down.

[Billyboy294]

I saw about this on BBC this morning and they interviewed a woman who has been helping those who had been subjected to abuse.

 

I wondered how FOX would deal with this and sure enough they had a spokeswoman for the Catholic Church answering  'softball' questions and implying the Report was biased but that everything is now OK.

 

She wasn't asked why the Church was still refusing to reveal its own investigations into the abuse.

[QuotaMan]

It seems like a regular recurrence that we read of sex abuse cover ups by Catholic types even in my home country of USA.

 

Every time, there's hand wringing and calls for national debate and soul searching over sex abuse, complete with hollow promises of cracking down and rectifying past wrongs.

 

Yet time and time again same abuse and coverup still occurs. What a farce.

[onetosix]

It seems like a regular recurrence that we read of sex abuse cover ups by Catholic types even in my home country of USA.

 

Every time, there's hand wringing and calls for national debate and soul searching over sex abuse, complete with hollow promises of cracking down and rectifying past wrongs.

 

Yet time and time again same abuse and coverup still occurs. What a farce.

You are right QuotaMan. This has been going on for centuries now. The ugly underbelly truth about the Catholic church is ALWAYS covered up by it's own heirarchy. They put on a real pious front for the world to see, but underneath the organization is rotten in the core, but well hidden from public view.

[Billyboy294]

Report on Catholic Church in Ireland.

 

LONDON — Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday (2009).

 

“Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks, hitting with the hand, kicking, ear pulling, hair pulling, head shaving, beating on the soles of the feet, burning, scalding, stabbing, severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods, made to sleep outside overnight, being forced into cold or excessively hot baths and showers, hosed down with cold water before being beaten, beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs, being restrained in order to be beaten, physical assaults by more than one person.

[redsmoke]

Report on Catholic Church in Ireland.

 

LONDON — Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday (2009).

 

“Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks, hitting with the hand, kicking, ear pulling, hair pulling, head shaving, beating on the soles of the feet, burning, scalding, stabbing, severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods, made to sleep outside overnight, being forced into cold or excessively hot baths and showers, hosed down with cold water before being beaten, beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs, being restrained in order to be beaten, physical assaults by more than one person.

 

wow sound more like a third world prison then a church run school, stabbings and beating with hooks that some crazy shit! Then church knew and didn't do shit about it! Smdh!