GENEVA
Press TV (Iran)
[with video]
A United Nations committee grills the Vatican over the global child sex abuse scandal involving priests.
For the second time this year, in a two-hour hearing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, the UN Committee against Torture launched a barrage of questions to the Vatican delegation, accusing the church of ducking responsibility on the issue.
The committee called for a permanent investigation system to end what it called a “climate of impunity” prevailing in the Vatican for decades.
George Tugushi, a member of the committee from Georgia, questioned the adequacy of measures taken to address the issue of sex abuse by the Vatican, and termed a recent formation of an international commission advising Pope Francis on how to deal with sexual abuse as very positive but not enough.
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