GENEVA
The Voice of Russia
The Vatican has dismissed more than 800 priests for sexual abuse of children in the past decade and paid billions of dollars in compensation, senior Vatican officials told a United Nations panel on Tuesday, NYT reports. The Vatican came under hostile investigation by a United Nations committee on Monday, May 5, over its handling of sex abuse scandals that have surfaced more than a decade ago.
The Holy See had to “show us that, as a party to the convention, you have a system in place to prohibit torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment when it is acquiesced to by anyone under the effective control of the officials of the Holy See and the institutions that operate in the Vatican City state,” Felice Gaer, the US chief rapporteur of the Against Torture Committee, told the Vatican delegation, The Guardian reported.
Signed over a decade ago, the anti-torture treaty reflects the international convention that bans torture as well as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
The Vatican was accused by the Against Torture Committee of covering up crimes by the clergy and lay personnel falls.
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