MALTA
Times of Malta
The Church yesterday announced the setting up of a board tasked with directing victims of sexual abuse by clerics to therapy.
The Therapeutic Evaluation Board, made up of a psychologist, a psychiatrist and a social worker, will determine the sort of therapy needed by the victims and refer them to the people who can help.
The service will also apply to adults who were abused when they were minors, with the bill being footed by the relevant ecclesiastical authority. The news comes after the spokesman for a group of men who suffered sexual abuse in the late 1980s, at the St Joseph’s home for boys, said the victims were willing to speak to the Church on the possibility of receiving counselling.
He pointed out, however, that none had been provided in the past 10 years.
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