Tag: sex abuse victims

Sex abuse by priests at Chilean church school was an unending ‘perverse game’, says victim

  by Giovanna Fleitas Agence France Presse VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AFP) — Sexual abuse at the hands of priests marked the childhood of Jaime Concha since the day when, at age 10, he entered a school run by the Marist Brothers religious order in Santiago. He is now 55 years old and a doctor. After all these years, his case is one of dozens finally being investigated by the Catholic Church in Chile — […]

Pope’s record on paedophile priests tarnishes three-year report card

by Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere VATICAN City (AFP) — Many words, little action: three years after Pope Francis’s election, victims of priest sex abuse are bitter and disappointed, accusing the Church of having failed to punish guilty clerics and end a culture of complacency on the issue. The recent Australian Royal Commission hearings of Vatican number three George Pell and a preliminary criminal probe into accusations that Lyon’s archbishop, Philippe Barbarin, covered up for a paedophile […]