Horrible report on churches in the US

In a statement to the press, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the scale of child sexual abuse in the institutions of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, which has approximately 3.5 million members statewide, is far greater than what is known, and that the real figures are attempted to be hidden by the Archdiocese.

Raoul claimed that “more than 100,000 documents were examined during a 5-year study”, more than 600 victims were contacted “face to face, by email or by phone” and “hundreds of new horror stories” that were not reported. they knew before they were revealed.

Showing the nearly 700-page report to members of the press, Raoul noted that “approximately 2,000 minor children who were sexually abused” were documented by state investigators at Church administrative institutions with 6 dioceses in Illinois.

“The Catholic Diocese and Archdiocese of Illinois can and must recommit to providing survivors with the ongoing support they need and deserve,” the report says. expression was used.

It was noted that, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, the Church administration preferred to be appointed to church institutions in regions where the issue was unknown, rather than remove priests accused of sexual abuse.

Prior to the investigation led by Attorney General Raoul, there were 103 priests known to have served in Roman Catholic churches and been shown to have sexually abused children, while this number rose to 451 with the additional findings in the new report. (AA)