(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 6 – Italian clerical sex abuse survivor network Rete L’Abuso said Tuesday that there was still too much ‘omertà’ on predator priests in Italy and that some 3.2% of clerics were abusers.
Survivor networks in Italy and abroad have said late Pope Francis did more than his predecessors on the abuse crisis that has roiled the global Church, but still too little.
“There are huge legislative gaps in Italy, for example there is no obligation to report while the hierarchies have not respected at all the appeals of Pope Francis” against pedophilia, said the chair of Rete L’Abuso, Francesco Zanardi, in a press conference promoted by the families of victims of paedophile priests on the eve of the conclave to pick Francis’s successor.
In Italy, he added, “there is a huge problem of omertà (mafia conspiracy of silence)”.
According to the data collected by Rete L’Abuso in the database “Spotlight on Italian Survivors”, which is however underestimated since not all cases come to light, “currently we have 3.2% of paedophile priests”, said Zanardi. (ANSA).
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Survivor networks in Italy and abroad have said late Pope Francis did more than his predecessors on the abuse crisis that has roiled the global Church, but still too little.
“There are huge legislative gaps in Italy, for example there is no obligation to report while the hierarchies have not respected at all the appeals of Pope Francis” against pedophilia, said the chair of Rete L’Abuso, Francesco Zanardi, in a press conference promoted by the families of victims of paedophile priests on the eve of the conclave to pick Francis’s successor.
In Italy, he added, “there is a huge problem of omertà (mafia conspiracy of silence)”.
According to the data collected by Rete L’Abuso in the database “Spotlight on Italian Survivors”, which is however underestimated since not all cases come to light, “currently we have 3.2% of paedophile priests”, said Zanardi. (ANSA).
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