A committee that has been examining historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Monday that 512 alleged victims have come forward.
FILE - A Roman Catholic church in Lisbon, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. A committee that has been examining historic child sex abuse in Portuguese Catholic Church says on Monday, Feb. 13 that 512 alleged victims have come forward. Senior Portuguese church officials had previously claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.
The report, criticized by some as long overdue, came four years after Pope Francis gathered church leaders from around the world at the Vatican to address the sex abuse crisis in the church. Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who headed the panel in Portugal, said it estimates the true number of victims during the period as being at least at 4,815. He didn't explain how the extrapolation was made.
The report said that 77% of the abusers were priests, with other perpetrators being linked to church institutions. It added that 77% of victims didn’t report the abuse to church officials and only 4% went to the police.
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