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'Lussuria' gives paedophilia figures

ANSA
January 18, 2017

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/vatican/2017/01/18/lussuria-gives-paedophilia-figures_a3bea5a8-86ab-4d36-a2ef-8cdc9c13fd52.html


New book by Fittipaldi, Holy See gets over 400 cases per year

(ANSA) - Rome, January 18 - Despite a crackdown announced by Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, some 518 reports of 'graviora delicta' were made in 2015, "the vast majority of which involving sexual abuse of minors", according to a document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Catholic Church department that deals with priestly sex abuse. Sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, long covered up by ecclesiastical authorities, is the subject of Emiliano Fittipaldi's new book 'Lussuria' (Lust), which will be in Italian bookshops from Thursday. The journalist, who went on trial and was acquitted for the 'Vatileaks 2' case and his previous book, 'Avarizia' (Avarice), has once again focused on the Vatican. ANSA has seen an advance copy of 'Lussuria', which recounts how the Vatican said that of the 587 cases opened in 2014 by its disciplinary office, over 500 involved the crimes of 'the most dishonorable type'. In 2013, the first year of Pope Francis's papacy, out of 522 complaints filed by dioceses and ecclesiastical institutes and bodies from "various parts of the world", some 84.8% (443 cases) were 'graviora delicta', including "401 charges against priests with a child under 18 years old", Monsignor Silvano Tomasi said in May 2014 at a Committee against Torture hearing that requested information on the issue.
    Tomasi was at that time Holy See Permanent Observer at the United Nations in Geneva. Similar figures were seen in 2012 and 2011 and the same trend "has continued over the past few years", which means that around 1,200 reports of child sexual abuse were filed during the first three years of Pope Francis's years in office. These roughly 400 cases per year are in any case less than the record high seen in 2004 in the US (between 700 and 800 cases), but much higher than the 2005-2009 period, when less than 200 cases were filed every year. The reports rose sharply again starting in 2010.




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