Second Report Condemns Catholic church for Abusing Thousands of Girls

HERE Monday 11 March 2013

The Catholic church must acknowledge and compensate the thousands of girls who were sexually and physically abused by priests, monks and nuns, according to a new report focusing on female abuse victims.

The report, the second produced by the specialist committee led by Wim Deetman, looked at 150 cases in which girls were physically and sexually abused. The research focused on the period 1945 to 2010.

Three of the cases are so serious they are to be referred to the public prosecution department, even though they technically happened too long ago.

The report shows that girls were more likely to be abused in their homes whereas boys were usually abused at boarding schools. But girls were more likely to to be subjected to physical violence and mental abuse by nuns and other carers when they were living in institutions.

It is not clear how many girls were abused by clerics and nuns, but it could run up to 10,000, the Deetman report said. More HERE