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SNAP Amends Complaint Filed with Hague Court

Toledo Blade
April 21, 2012

http://www.toledoblade.com/Religion/2012/04/21/SNAP-amends-complaint-filed-with-Hague-court.html

An advocacy group for victims of clerical sexual abuse has filed supplemental documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague in support of its claim that Vatican officials and bishops deliberately covered up for priests who molested children.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said the new allegations arose after nearly 500 victims, witnesses, and whistleblowers from 65 countries contacted the organization after it filed the complaint with the court in September.

In addition to the new documentation, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing SNAP, told the court prosecutor that it believes Catholic leaders in the United States were making orchestrated legal efforts to retaliate against SNAP for filing the complaint.

The jurisdiction of the court includes rape, sexual violence, and torture as crimes against humanity and provides for individual criminal liability for those who supervise people who directly commit such crimes.

 

 

 

 

 




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