GENEVA
Press TV (Iran)
A United Nations (UN) committee is to begin questioning the Vatican for the second time this year over the global child sex abuse scandal involving priests.
The committee meeting will start in Geneva, Switzerland, later on Monday and will focus its questions on torture and inhuman treatment.
Prior to the meeting, the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal group based in New York, submitted reports on behalf of victims to the committee.
The UN committee is to examine whether the Vatican’s record on child protection breaches the body’s Convention Against Torture and plans to present its final observations and recommendations on May 23.
Katherine Gallagher, a human rights attorney for the group, said that if the UN committee finds that the abuse amounts to torture and inhuman treatment, it could trigger a large number of abuse lawsuits dating back decades since there are no statute of limitations on torture cases.
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