Catholic Church 'Humiliated Child Victims to Protect Priests', Says Un

By James Bone in Rome and Ruth Gledhill
The Times
February 5, 2014

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3996369.ece

View from on high of St Peter’s square in the Vatican

Children around the world remain at risk of sexual abuse because the Vatican is protecting predator priests, a United Nations panel said today.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child demanded that the Catholic Church should immediately remove all suspected clergy from their posts and refer their cases to police.

“The practice of offenders’ mobility, which has allowed many priests to remain in contact with children and to continue to abuse them, still places children in many countries at high risk of sexual abuse, as dozens of child sexual offenders are reported to be still in contact with