Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church since 1950
Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church since 1950
This sounds way too low.
It does but given the population of Sweden and how small the percent of Catholics it only sounds low at first glance. There are only about 180k Catholics in the whole country.
Still you are probably still right and a whole lot more is going to be found. Wish you weren't right.
Bishopric of Basel admits mistakes in sex abuse case
I'm curious if they followed the US roadmap. When the US Catholic Church realized they had a sex abuse problem back in the 80's, they took immediate action ... and bought sex abuser insurance for every diocese and archdiocese in the entire country, destroyed a bunch of documentation on the abuse, moved other files to Washington DC where they could be covered by diplomatic immunity, and continued to move abusive priests to fresh churches with no warning to the congregation, and moving worse offenders overseas, out of reach of the Justice Department. All the while, they also restructured local and regional churches to ensure that each was it's own individual entity, and that as many of the assets as possible were completely untouchable.
If they get sued, they deny everything, fight every request for discovery, attack the victims' characters, and say it must have been an isolated incident. If forced to pay out, they rely on those extremely low-premium high-payout insurance policies they bought; if the payout goes beyond what's covered by insurance, the church pleads poverty because all the assets are 'owned' by some other entity, and if pressed they'll declare local bankruptcy.
Not that I'm bitter or anything ...
I know a guy who swears he heard people in the early 70s talk about pedo priests.
I should think there is more than that.
These are the ones that the church kept records of.
Failed to destroy the record of...
Let me guess... zero prison time!
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