UN Rips Vatican Over Sex Abuse

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report on child abuse in the Catholic Church, criticizing the Vatican for creating a system that allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children. The report argues that by refusing to release data on abuse, the Vatican is concealing the crimes of the clergy and failing to fully acknowledge the offences. the UN also called for an immediate removal of all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The report singled out in particular the Church’s policy of “offenders’ mobility” that transfers abusive priests from parish to parish, and put “children in many countries at high risk of sexual abuse, as dozens of child sexual offenders are reported to be still in contact with children.”