BREAKING: Thousands of pedophile priests abused over 200,000 children in French Catholic Church
A Catholic leader in France has described the"shame" of revelations that those working for the church had abused hundreds of thousands of children over more than seven decades.
In presenting the commission's findings which followed an investigation lasting two-and-a-half years, CIASE president Jean-Marc Sauvé said on Tuesday that 216,000 people had been abused by priests and other members of the clergy. Jean-Marc Sauvé who heads a commission into sexual abuse by French church officials. He said there could be as many as 330,000 victims over seven decades.The damning 2,500-page document said that around 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of whom were priests, were responsible and around 80 percent of the victims were male, according to The Associated Press.
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