INTERNATIONAL
Press TV (Iran)
Discredited pedophile priests in the Catholic Church are outsourced to countries where no prosecution takes place, a commentator tells Press TV.
“A lot of the pedophiles who discredit themselves in more advanced white countries, where they’ll be prosecuted, are outsourced to rape, molest and abuse non-white black, brown people – And the church needs to confront its long history of racism,” Randy Short, a human rights activist said in an interview with Press TV from Washington on Tuesday.
“Take Africa – I don’t know of one case. There are easily 200-300 million Catholics in Africa and yet you’ve never heard of one case and I know from doing my academic research on the Congo that these things go on on an epidemic scale,” Short added.
The comments come following the arrest and sentencing of an influential Irish catholic priest to four years’ probation for sexually abusing a child in his care at a religious school in Chile.
Earlier, a Roman Catholic priest in the United States was charged with sexually abusing children during missionary trips to Honduras.
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