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Child sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic clergy is plaguing several countries for decades now. The tragic tales sometimes take an entire lifetime to come to the surface. The ugly face of it, the laws behind and the system loopholes, which reek itself in injustice. Know everything about the paedophilia scandal. 

An investigation by an independent commission recently has unearthed the dirty face of child abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy in Portugal. The horrifying testimonies of the survivors become the ground of the commission’s inquiry. The commission with the help of a large network of victims was able to make a deeper cut into finding out the ongoing paedophilia in the staunchly Catholic country. 

The Portuguese inquiry which was commissioned by the church revealed that there are about 5,000 children who have become victims of child abuse since 1950. The report comes after the testimony…