Tens Of Thousands Of Children Sexually Abused By Dutch Catholic Church

Ten of thousands of children have been victim of the sexual abuse through the Roman Catholic church in the Netherlands since 1945, an independent commission said been on Friday, criticizing, what called it the disguising of the church and more culturally quiet. The commission appreciated that 10,000 were abused to 20,000 minor sexually during in the worry by Catholic institutions such as for example orphanages, boarding schools and seminar, between 1945 and 1981, with offense passing of that very mildly to the serious, including rape. After 1981, there were few churches laufheime for minor. It has also that of the end of world war two said until 2010, "several ten of thousands of minor became mild, serious and very serious forms of the unfit sexual behavior in the Roman Catholic church stopped".

The (religious) orders were dealing with cases. The idea that people did not know it and administrators did not know it cannot be maintained," said Wim Deetman, a Protestant former education minister and former mayor of The Hague who led the commission.
The report criticised the church for protecting paedophile priests as it tried to put the reputation of the church above care and concern for the victims.
Most of the cases involved mild to moderate abuse, such as touching, but it said that it estimated there were "several thousand" instances of rape.
"Everyone can be shocked that this history has come in this magnitude. Everyone can be taken aback that the Church has lied about this and covered it up," Guido Klabbers from the KLOKK lobby group of child abuse victims told public broadcaster NOS.