The president of a commission set up to investigate child abuse in the French Catholic Church has revealed that at least 3,000 children have fallen victim to sex abuse by clergy and other church officials.
France’s Catholic bishops set up the commission in 2018 to shed light on sexual abuse committed by French clerics after a number of scandals shook the Church in the country.
Its president, Jean-Marc Sauve, said on Wednesday that preliminary figures indicated that some 1,500 clergy and other church officials carried out the abuse over the course of several decades.
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