Anonymous ID: 6ba962 March 16, 2019, 1:34 p.m. No.5724130   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4154 >>4178 >>4204 >>4510 >>4719 >>4731 >>4791

While the world is focused on NZ:

 

Poland's Catholic Church: 382 priests abused 625 minors

 

WARSAW, Poland (AP) โ€” Poland's Catholic Church authorities revealed Thursday they have recorded cases of 382 clergymen who have abused 625 victims under the age of 18 since 1990.

 

The figure includes 198 priests and friars who abused minors under 15 years old and 184 clergy who abused victims between 15 and 18, according to Wojciech Sadlon, head of the church's Institute of Statistics.

 

In both confirmed and unconfirmed cases, there were 345 victims under age 15 and 280 victims between 15 to 18. The crimes occurred from 1990 through June of last year, Sadlon told a news conference. More than 58 percent of the victims were male.

 

Archbishop Wojciech Polak, the primate of Poland, expressed "pain, shame and the sense of guilt that such situations took place."

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https://news.yahoo.com/polands-catholic-church-set-release-sex-abuse-statistics-125421569.html

Anonymous ID: 6ba962 March 16, 2019, 1:40 p.m. No.5724203   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4211 >>4254

Quick! Look to NZ before people notice!!

 

Former Vatican treasurer Pell jailed for six years for 'brazen' sexual attack on choir boys

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail on Wednesday for sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne in the 1990s, and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

 

County Court of Victoria Chief Judge Peter Kidd, who handed down the sentence in a live television broadcast, said there was a real possibility that at age 77, Pell could spend the rest of his life in prison.

 

Pell, a former top adviser to Pope Francis, is the most senior Catholic to be convicted for child sex offences.

 

His downfall brings to the heart of the papal administration a scandal over clerical abuse that has ravaged the Church's credibility in the United States, Chile, Australia and elsewhere over the last three decades.

 

"In my view, your conduct was permeated by staggering arrogance," said Kidd in handing down the sentence after Pell was convicted of five charges of sexually abusing two children.

 

"Viewed overall, I consider your moral culpability across both episodes to be high," he told the packed court room.

 

Pell, who appeared in court without a priest's collar for the first time during the case, showed no emotion during the sentencing hearing that ran for more than one hour. He has maintained his innocence and has filed an appeal that is scheduled to be heard in June.

 

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https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/ca/idUSKBN1QT24E

 

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