NETHERLANDS
IOL
November 1 2012
By SAPA
The Hague –
A Dutch widow is suing the Roman Catholic Church for R1.1 million over her husband’s suicide two decades ago as the result of years of sexual abuse in his youth, local media said Thursday.
The unnamed woman from the eastern city of Enschede “claims 100 000 euros ($129 000) from the Roman Catholic Church which she holds responsible,” local station RTV Oost said on its website.
“According to the woman her husband was abused for years by religious fathers in a mission house in (the southern province of) Brabant without it ever being discovered.” The abuse allegedly took place in the late 1930s.
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