WASHINGTON (DC)
Radio Free Asia
January 4, 2019
A handful of cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Myanmar that have been covered up for decades with victims choosing not to report the crime in the country’s “culturally closed” society have come to light, a respected priest said on Wednesday.
“We didn’t have a significant number of cases in Myanmar,” said Rev. Soe Naing. “We only heard one or two old cases that happened about 10, 15 years.”
He did not provide any details about the two cases or about any other findings of abuse. He said the victims were laypersons.
“Like similar allegations that came out around the world, some have accused the senior leaders of not taking action, protecting those who committed the abuses,” he told RFA’s Myanmar Service. “The cases came to light after so many years and the accused had given pledges not to make the same mistakes.”
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