UNITED STATES
Press TV (Iran)
A church-sponsored audit says the allegations of sexual abuse of minors committed by Roman Catholic Church clerics in the United States increased 15 percent in number in 2011.
According to a report by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops released on Tuesday, a total of 489 people reported credible cases of allegations of sexual abuse by priests or deacons in 2011.
The largest portion of the allegations was made by adults who were victimized when they were children by now-deceased clerics.
Twenty-one cases of the abuse allegations involved victims younger than 19 who made the allegations more recently, according to the report.
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