The church must not only acknowledge events but also compensate victims, Devaux said. The deviant institution must reform itself.” One of Preynat's victims, Francois Devaux, head of the victims' group La Parole Libérée ("The Liberated Word"), told AP that “with this report, the French church for the first time is going to the root of this systemic problem. He acknowledged abusing more than 75 boys for decades. Last year, Preynat was convicted of sexually abusing minors and given a five-year prison sentence. The report comes after a scandal surrounding now-defrocked priest Bernard Preynat rocked the French Catholic Church. They also launched a hotline at the beginning of the probe which received 6,500 calls from alleged victims or people who said they knew a victim. Though these figures haven't been confirmed.Īccording to the report, the commission worked for over two and half years listening to victims and witnesses and studying church, court, police and press archives starting from the 1950s. That is terrifying for the French society, for the Catholic Church,” he was quoted by AP. “That is devastating, because the ratio between 216,000 and 3,000, it's one aggressor for 70 victims. Olivier Savignac, head of victims' association “Parler et Revivre” (Speak Out and Live Again), who contributed to the probe, told The Associated Press that the estimated number of victims in the report reaches 216,000.
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