GENEVA
Rappler
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
POSTED ON 02/05/2014
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Vatican must remove all child sexual abusers from their posts and turn them over to the police, the United Nations children’s rights watchdog said Wednesday, February 5.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urged the Holy See to “immediately remove all known and suspected child sexual abusers from assignment and refer the matter to the relevant law enforcement authorities for investigation and prosecution purposes.”
In a hard-hitting report, the committee said that the Roman Catholic Church was still failing to do enough to live up to its stated commitment to stamp out child abuse by priests and lay employees, including in schools.
It underlined its “deepest concern about child sexual abuse committed by members of the Catholic churches who operate under the authority of the Holy See, with clerics having been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide.”
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