The Catholic Church will pay off the victims of pedophilia

Reuters: Catholic Church will sell real estate and pay off victims of pedophilia violence. This is reported by Reuters.

The President of the Episcopal Conference, Eric de Moulin-Beaufort, said that the Church recognized its “institutional responsibility” and decided to go “along the path of recognition and redress, which provides victims with the opportunity to mediate and compensation. “

The bishops will create a fund” financed to any extent necessary by the sale of real estate and other assets, “de Moulin-Beaufort, Archbishop of Reims and head of the French Bishops' Conference, told reporters.

“If necessary, we are also ready to take loans to fulfill our obligations,” added de Moulin-Beaufort, without specifying details of the amount of compensation and how the church intends to pay it.

In addition, The bishops also decided to ask the Pope to send special envoys to them to oversee how each bishop and diocese deals with individual cases of juvenile abuse.

5 ok In October, a large-scale investigation was released, revealing information that members of the Catholic clergy in France over 70 years have abused more than 200 thousand children. In doing so, they urged victims to remain silent in order to protect the reputation of church institutions. According to this investigation, from 1950 to 2020, more than three thousand rapists from 115 thousand priests and other clergy worked in the French Catholic Church.

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