UNITED STATES
AL.com
By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com
on May 09, 2013
The U.S. Catholic Church’s annual audit of compliance with its Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People found a drop in the number of sexual abuse allegations, victims and offenders reported in 2012, according to a statement released today from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, which gathered data for the report, found “the fewest allegations and victims reported since the data collection for the annual reports began in 2004.”
Most allegations reported last year were from the 1970s and 1980s, with many of the alleged offenders already deceased or removed from ministry.
There were no new allegations of clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Birmingham, spokesman Frank Savage told AL.com/The Birmingham News.
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