CANADA
National Post
Charles Lewis | 04/12/13
The BBC is reporting that the Vatican has rebuffed a United Nations request for information concerning sexual abuse.
The Vatican, the report says, insist that the only valid jurisdictions are the ones where the alleged abuse took place.
“The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child put a wide-ranging questionnaire to the Holy See — the city state’s diplomatic entity — last July, asking for detailed information about the particulars of all sexual abuse cases notified to the Vatican since 1995,” the BBC reported.
“The questions included whether priests, nuns and monks guilty of sexual crime were allowed to remain in contact with children, what legal action had been taken against them, whether the Church required clergy to report abuse to secular authorities and whether complainants were silenced.”
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