Tag: sexual abuse

• Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 08:56 UTC

  Scandal in Spain's Catholic Church: one in 200 Spaniards claim to have been sexually abused by priests

  

  A new scandal has erupted in Spain when more than one in 200 Spaniards claim they were sexually abused by the Catholic Church when they were minors, according to an official report published in Madrid.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Emeritus pope Benedict allegedly involved in cover ups of sexual abuse against minors

  

  A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church, following the devastating report which revealed that former Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI failed to act in several cases of abuse, almost a cover-up, while a bishop in Germany.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Chilean lawmakers present a bill making “stealthing” a crime

  

  Following on the recent approval in California of a bill describing the removal of the condom during a consensual sexual relation as sexual abuse or even a crime, Chilean lawmakers have made a similar presentation before Congress.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 07:46 UTC

  Governor of US State of New York to leave office over major sexual harassment scandal

  

  New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday announced he would resign effective in a fortnight following a report from Federal Prosecutor Letitia James which details his alleged sexual harassment of female staffers.

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis: Pope rejects resignation of Munich's cardinal

  

  Pope Francis rejected the offer of resignation from the Archbishop of Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx on Thursday, who had told the pope he would step down amid the sexual abuse crisis.

• Thursday, October 15th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Rape and sexual abuse of altar boys who serve Mass in St Peter's Basilica

  

  A Vatican court heard graphic descriptions of sexual abuse on Wednesday as two priests went on trial, one charged with repeatedly raping an altar boy in a youth seminary and the other of covering up the attacks.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 11:16 UTC

  Cardinal Pell acquitted: ex choir boy who accused him of sexual abuse accepts the court ruling

  

  A former choirboy who accused Australian Cardinal George Pell of molesting him said on Wednesday he accepts the top Vatican acquittal, but urged survivors of child sex abuse to keep coming forward.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  British politicians blind eye on decades of children sexual abuse, shows independent inquiry

  

  British politicians turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children and actively covered up allegations over decades, an independent inquiry into historical sex offences in Westminster found on Tuesday. The inquiry did not find evidence of an organised paedophile network in its examination of the period, covering the 1960s through until the 1990s.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Hundreds of children sexually abused by priests from ultra conservative branch of Mexican Catholic Church

  

  At least 175 children were sexually assaulted by priests belonging to an ultra-conservative Mexican branch of the Roman Catholic Church, according to an internal report published over the weekend.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 22:03 UTC

  Women in Mexico take to the streets demanding protection from police abuses

  

  Hundreds of women demanding protection from Mexico City's police force took to the streets after a number of high-profile sexual assault cases involving serving officers. To shouts of “I do believe you!” and “My friends protect me, you don't,” the initially peaceful rally ended with some participants lighting a fire on the second floor of a police building and vandalizing a bus station.