Primate of Poland apologizes to victims of sexual violence
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Sexual abuse of children has been recorded for 62 years. 368 cases were registered.
In Poland, data was released on cases of sexual abuse of children in the period from 1958 to 2020, committed in the structures of the church. During this time, 368 cases were registered when it could be a question of sexual violence against minors by clergy. Gazeta.pl.
The data was collected by the Institute of Statistics of the Roman Catholic Church from 2018 to 2020.
The Polish church recognized 39% of cases of child abuse as objective, 51% are still being checked, and 10% are not confirmed.
“Speaking of 368 cases, it should be understood that we are not talking about the same number of accused clergymen. Some persons are accused of criminal acts against several persons, some cases were committed by persons without clergy. There are fewer monks who may have been involved in the rape. According to our calculations, there are 292 of them in more than 60 years, “Father Wojciech Sadlone commented on the data.
The Primate of Poland, Archbishop Wojciech Polek, asked for forgiveness from the victims of sexual violence committed during the entire time in the Polish Catholic Church.
“I want to appeal to the insulted and to all those who have been touched by evil in the church and ask for forgiveness,” Polak said.
As Korrespondent.net reported, in two months in Ukraine 70 cases were opened for sexual abuse of children… This is far from the real state of affairs, since most children are ashamed to report incidents of violence.
We add that Ukraine – in the top three suppliers of child pornography in the world.
The police in 2020-2021 exposed about 300 facts of the distribution of child pornography.
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