French clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors said the Catholic Church had turned a blind eye to the 'scourge' for too long.
An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a major report released Thursday that is France s first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon.
A French commission has released an exhaustive report uncovering 70 years of child sex abuse in the country's Catholic Church. The 2.5-year probe looked at church, court, press and police files.