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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Great news on sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church

The bad thing is that any of these sexual abuse cases--across the world--ever took place. The good news now is that finally, organizations are taking these worldwide cases to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. From NPR today: Clerical Abuse Victims Seek Justice At World Court And who else is doing it but the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP): "...the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, and the human rights group the Center for Constitutional Rights say the Vatican has yet to implement a policy to crack down on abusive priests and cooperate with law enforcement. The groups are delivering more than 20,000 pages of documentation from all over the world to the International Criminal Court, or ICC. Attorney Pam Spees says the evidence shows that crimes of clerical sex abuse constitute a "widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population." Maybe, with this exposure, the Catholic Church will finally be held accountable across the globe for their actions and non-actions, as it applies. Maybe now the children and members of the church who decide to remain in this organization can look forward to not being expoited one day, should this be successful. Here's hoping. Link to original post: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140424290/sex-abuse-victims-want-hague-tribunal-to-investigate-vatican

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