GENEVA
Newser
By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff
Posted Feb 5, 2014
(NEWSER) – The United Nations is hammering the Vatican for what a panel calls a failure to fully address sex abuse in the Catholic Church. “The Holy See has consistently placed the preservation of the reputation of the church and the protection of the perpetrators above children’s best interests,” the Committee on the Rights of the Child says, per the New York Times. The Vatican “has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators.”
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