Priests defrocked and sexual abuse of children is torture

Disambiguation · May 6, 2014

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Late...-848-priests-Is-sex-abuse-of-children-torture

The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004.

The U.N. convention defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person" to obtain information, to punish or coerce and is inflicted with the "consent or acquiescence" of a public official.

Gaer said afterward that she considered Tomasi's response to be a clear admission by the Holy See that sexual violence can be a form of torture.

Defining sexual abuse as torture will lead to a new round of law suits

I knew that already · May 7, 2014

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The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004.

Not very many defrocked given the total number of complaints. What were the other sanctions for child sex abuse?

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