GENEVA
Shanghai Daily
Feb 06,2014
ROME, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — A United Nations committee on Wednesday slammed the Vatican for adopting policies that allegedly allowed priests to abuse children with impunity, and asked all priests known or suspected to be abusers to be removed immediately.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said in a 16-page report that it was deeply concerned “about child sexual abuse committed by member of the Catholic churches operating under the authority of the Vatican, with clerics having been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide.”
Several scandals over child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church broke in Europe, Canada, and the United States, mainly since 2002.
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