A 12-year-old girl, whose murder shook France and sparked political controversy, was laid to rest this afternoon, after an Algerian woman who was in the country illegally was charged with her killing.
It is estimated that 216,000 children have been abused clerics in the French Catholic Church since the 1950s. The inquiry that unearthed the scale of the abuse could also lead the way to reforms within the church.
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