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Subject: Vatican kept code of silenceon paedophile priest
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prismf 16.02.14 - 07:16pm
claims UN report

The Vaticans moral authority has been left in tatters by a United Nations report condemning the Catholic Churchs code of silence on paedophile priests, allowing known sex offenders to continue working with children to this day.

Following their interrogation of senior Holy See figures on 16 January, UN childrens rights experts have lambasted the church for allowing clerical abuse to go on unchecked for decades, for its continued refusal to admit the extent of the problem, and its failure to adopt adequate measures to prevent further crimes. The investigators estimate that tens of thousands of children worldwide have been sexually abused by clerics.

According to the report published by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, well-known child sex abusers were for years being transferred from parish to parish in an attempt to cover up such crimes. As a result of moving rather than reporting paedophiles, in many countries dozens of child sex offenders are reported to still be in contact with children.

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prismf 16.02.14 - 07:17pm
Previously, the Vatican has insisted it cannot be held responsible for the actions of bishops and priests around the globe, saying it is the responsibility of local law enforcement to police such abuse. However, by insisting on using internal disciplinary measures to tackle the problem, the church has allowed the vast majority of abusers and almost all those who concealed child abuse to escape judicial proceedings. The report adds: Due to a code of silence imposed on all members of the clergy under penalty of ex-communication, cases of child abuse have hardly been reported to law enforcement agencies. That code is still in place, according to the authors of the report; two months ago, the Holy See refused to provide the committee with data on all cases of child abuse brought to its attention. * +

prismf 16.02.14 - 07:18pm
Barbara Blaine of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (Snap) said the report should act as a wake-up call for the church: For the safety of children, we hope every head of state on the planet reads this and acts on it.

Jon OBrien, president of Catholics for Choice, said: If the Pope is serious about turning the page on this scandal, he should immediately dismiss any bishop who oversaw a diocese in which a priest who abused children was shielded from the civil authorities. * +

prismf 16.02.14 - 07:19pm
But Silvano Tomasi, the Vaticans permanent observer at the UN, said the report gave a distorted picture. He said it failed to take into account the Vaticans making a series of changes for the protection of children and that efforts at reform were fact, evidence, which cannot be distorted.

The investigators agree the church has committed itself to fighting abuse, but say to combat the practice effectively, the Vatican must ensure that all its personnel are made aware of their reporting obligations under local criminal law and that these obligations prevail over canon law. * +

prismf 16.02.14 - 07:20pm
[link]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/vatican-kept-code-of-silence-on-paedophile-priests-claims-un-report-9109363.html[/link] source * +

prismf 16.02.14 - 07:24pm
lets hope they commit themselves that much to fighting abuse that they actually do not protect these paedophiles and offer the information they hold on the abusers to the judicial courts. And help in getting them dealt with properly.

Also raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 in vatican city may also be a positive step forward mr pope............ * +

prismf 16.02.14 - 07:36pm
also read.....[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States[/link]

[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_scandal_in_Ireland[/link]

[link]http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/catholic-church-scotland-reveal-27-2851687[/link] * +

bozzalad 16.02.14 - 08:15pm
said all along the last pope should have been arrested n charged when he visited the uk , or barred entrance * +

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