"These numbers are much more than worrying"They are shocking and can in no way go unanswered," he said, adding that the committee he leads has alerted prosecutors to some of the cases it has dealt with.
These revelations in France are the latest to shock the Roman Catholic Church, after a series of trigger sexual abuse by a priest in the world, often involving children, for the past 20 years.
The abuse was systemic, Sovey said during a public, online presentation of the report, adding that the Church showed "deep, absolute, even cold indifference for years", Protecting herself rather than the victims.
Most of them victims it was boys, noted, many of them aged 10 to 13 years.
The Church not only did not take the necessary measures to prevent it abuse, but she closed her eyes, failing to report the abuse and sometimes knowingly brought the children into contact with the perpetrators, she stressed.
This committee was created by bishops of the Catholic Church at the end of 2018 to shed light on the abuses and to restore the confidence of the world in the Church at a time when the number of churchgoers is declining. She worked independently of the Church.
Sove noted that the problem still exists and added that the Church showed complete indifference to the victims until the 2000s and that it really only began to change its attitude in 2015-2016.
Η commission she identified about 2.700 victims through calls for testimony and thousands more were found in records, Sove said.
However, large-scale research by research and polling teams estimates that there were about 216.000 victims, while this number may increase further, to 330.000, if the victims of abuse by lay people are included.
The death toll rises to "330.000 if we add the perpetrators who worked in Catholic Church institutions," Sove added.
These numbers cited are derived from statistical estimation, in which there is a margin of error of 50.000 people, the chairman of the committee also clarified, emphasizing that there have been about 2.900-3.200 suspected pedophiles in the French Church in the last 70 years.
"You are a disgrace to our humanity," François Devo, who founded the La Parole Liberee Victims' Association, told church officials at the public presentation of the exhibition before Sowe spoke.
"You are a disgrace to our humanity," François Devo, who founded the La Parole Liberee Victims' Association, told church officials at the public presentation of the exhibition before Sowe spoke.
"In this hell "There have been heinous mass crimes (…) but there are worse, betrayal of trust, betrayal of morals, betrayal of children," added Devo, who also accuses the Church of cowardice.
He thanked the committee, saying it hoped the report would be a turning point. institutional recognition of responsibility of the Church ", he concluded.
Representative of its bishops Roman Catholic Church of France today apologized to the victims of sexual abuse by clergy, following the publication of a report on these abuses within the Church dating back to 1950.
Ο Eric de Moulin-Beaufort, Archbishop of Rennes and head of the Synod of French Bishops, said he and his fellow bishops wanted to express to the victims their shame for the abuse revealed by the investigation.
"My wish on this day is to apologize, apologize to each and every one of you," the archbishop said.
"My wish on this day is to apologize, apologize to each and every one of you," the archbishop said.
According to the research committee, 216.000 children or adolescents were abused or sexually assaulted by Catholic clergy ή monks in France from 1950 to 2020.