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Anonymous ID: fa1e49 Feb. 8, 2019, 6:30 a.m. No.5078361   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Accused French priest tries to block film on child abuse scandal

08/02/2019

"By the Grace of God" centres on Devaux and Alexandre Dussot-Hezez, "a fervent Catholic who discovers at the age of 40 that a priest who abused him is still alive and has access to children" through the church.

 

A priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys is trying to block the release of a film about a scandal which has rocked the French Catholic church and put one of its most senior cardinals in the dock.

 

The acclaimed director Francois Ozon worked for years in secret on "By the Grace of God", which will be premiered Friday at the Berlin film festival.

 

But its release in France later this month is threatened, with the accused priest Bernard Preynat going to court to demand that it is not shown until after his trial, which is due to start later this year.

 

"I think the church wants things to change," said Ozon, who argued that a "lot of ordinary Catholics are sick of their religion being associated with paedophilia and want the hierarchy to sort the problem out once and for all".

Anonymous ID: fa1e49 Feb. 8, 2019, 6:35 a.m. No.5078391   🗄️.is 🔗kun

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Sierra Leone's president has officially declared a national emergency on rape and sexual violence in a major step toward addressing the issue in the West African nation.

 

President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday said each month hundreds of cases of rape and sexual assaults are being reported against women, girls and babies. He said some fatalities included three-month-olds and that 70 percent of survivors are under 15.

 

Bio said he wants to bring awareness since thousands of cases are unreported because of a culture of silence or indifference.

 

He said he has now made sexual penetration of minors punishable by life imprisonment. The current law carries a maximum penalty of 15 years, and very few cases have been prosecuted.

 

Bio's declaration comes after months of campaigning by activists.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/sierra-leone-president-declares-rape-a-national-emergency