Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 3,000 paedophiles in French Catholic church since 1950s - inquiry head | France | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Figure from head of commission investigating sexual abuse comes days before publication of report Quote The head of an independent commission investigating child sexual abuse in the French Catholic church has said about 3,000 paedophiles have operated inside the institution since 1950. Days before publication of its report, Jean-Marc Sauvé said the commission’s investigations had uncovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other church members, adding that this was “a minimum estimate”. Sauvé told Agence-France Presse that the 2,500-page report, based on church, court and police archives as well as interviews with witnesses and due to be published on Tuesday, had tried to quantify both the number of offenders and of victims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Is the denominator 3001? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Execute each and every one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 French Church abuse: 216,000 children were victims of clergy - inquiry WWW.BBC.COM The Church asks for forgiveness as an inquiry says it treated victims with "cruel indifference". Quote Some 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found. The head of the inquiry said there were at least 2,900-3,200 abusers, and accused the Church of showing a "cruel indifference towards the victims". Pope Francis "felt pain" on hearing about the inquiry's finding, a Vatican statement said. The inquiry found the number of children abused in France could rise to 330,000, when taking into account abuses committed by lay members of the Church, such as teachers at Catholic schools 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Time for some castrations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Shut the whole thing down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 34 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Shut the whole thing down. Problem is nobody has power over the Vatican and it's banks. Italy certainly won't ever confront the church, Vatican City is a sovereign nation, and over a billion people worldwide support the catholic church. Its an incredibly rich and powerful entity, shutting it down isnt a possibility. The only thing that can be done is to sue individual diocese, and the church has proven themselves experts on moving wealth to protect it. At this point, its nice to see them exposed, but nothing will change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 24 minutes ago, BloodyHell said: Problem is nobody has power over the Vatican and it's banks. Italy certainly won't ever confront the church, Vatican City is a sovereign nation, and over a billion people worldwide support the catholic church. Its an incredibly rich and powerful entity, shutting it down isnt a possibility. The only thing that can be done is to sue individual diocese, and the church has proven themselves experts on moving wealth to protect it. At this point, its nice to see them exposed, but nothing will change. Okay then, just get mobs to burn the churches down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GeneticBlueprint Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Remove celibacy requirements and/or allow clergy to marry and this problem would practically disappear going forward. Weird how religions don't do the easy and obvious thing sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 45 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Remove celibacy requirements and/or allow clergy to marry and this problem would practically disappear going forward. It isn’t as though sexual abuse doesn’t exist amongst married people. The issue isn’t celibacy, it is the power predators have within institutions. There is no celibacy requirement in public education, but thousands of children are sexually abused every year by public school teachers. School district culture largely to blame for not uprooting teacher sexual misconduct on Southern California campuses, experts say – Orange County Register WWW.OCREGISTER.COM Experts worry that a culture of covering up teacher-student sexual abuse in K-12 schools nationwide is perpetuated by a lack of training and a failure to hold educators more accountable for not pro… Sexual predators look for opportunities to victimize people, and that includes the employment they go for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, sblfilms said: It isn’t as though sexual abuse doesn’t exist amongst married people. The issue isn’t celibacy, it is the power predators have within institutions. There is no celibacy requirement in public education, but thousands of children are sexually abused every year by public school teachers. School district culture largely to blame for not uprooting teacher sexual misconduct on Southern California campuses, experts say – Orange County Register WWW.OCREGISTER.COM Experts worry that a culture of covering up teacher-student sexual abuse in K-12 schools nationwide is perpetuated by a lack of training and a failure to hold educators more accountable for not pro… Sexual predators look for opportunities to victimize people, and that includes the employment they go for. Fair enough. Speaking from my own religious background I can say that this issue does exist there too. And being married is a requirement for clergy there. Maybe 'drastically' isn't the word I should have used but being in an environment/profession where sexual expression is forbidden also creates monsters that otherwise might not exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 33 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Fair enough. Speaking from my own religious background I can say that this issue does exist there too. And being married is a requirement for clergy there. Maybe 'drastically' isn't the word I should have used but being in an environment/profession where sexual expression is forbidden also creates monsters that otherwise might not exist. I had an escaped Mormon as a co-worker and would always tease her about the polygamy and she'd always say, "They don't do that anymore!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 I don't like this sequel to Spotlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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