Philippines: Paedophilia and the Church

By Marianne Dardard
Arte.TV
December 16, 2020

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/092960-000-A/philippines-paedophilia-and-the-church/

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Our months-long investigation on clergy sex abuse in the overwhelmingly Catholic Philippines is now available with English subtitles. Unlike other countries, there is no association of victims for clergy sex misconduct in the Philippines.

The Philippines, despite being one of the most Catholic countries in the world, has never convicted a member of the clergy for sex abuse. And yet there are survivors who say that the abuse has been going on for years. At the end of 2018, an American priest who had officiated for forty years was arrested for pedophilia by the Philippine police and the American federal authorities.