Clergy Sexual Abuse in Jamaica
Denise Buchanan speaks at a press conference in Lima, Peru in January 2018, which was organized by LAMULA and PROMSEX (The Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights). The press conference highlighted the formation of The Accountability Project (TAP) which has become ECA – Ending Clergy Abuse. Denise Buchanan explains the effects of trauma caused by […]
Update Asia
Philippines:
In 2002 the Catholic Church apologized for sexual abuses, including adultery, homosexuality and child abuse by 200 priests over the previous 20 years.
In 2003 at least 34 priests were suspended in a sex abuse scandal involving sexual harassment of women. Twenty men were from a single diocese.
In 2011, a priest accused of […]
Update Africa
Kenya:
In 2009 several people accused an Italian priest, Fr. Sesana, working in the country of sexual molestation. The Church assured them it was investigating the case, but that did not appear to happen. Kenyan police said they found no evidence and believed Sesana is innocent.
In 2010 a young woman alleged that a Catholic priest had raped her but the police […]
Bishop Accountability Project
The core of the library at BishopAccountability.org and online holdings is a remarkable collection of tens of thousands of diocesan and religious order documents. Hundreds of thousands of secret church documents have been obtained in criminal investigations of sexual abuse and document production in civil suits, mostly in the United States, but also in Canada, Ireland, England, […]
International Conference for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in the Church, Warsaw, Poland
In November 2017, Speakers and Child Advocates from Poland, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Chile, Spain and Jamaica met and presented information and participated in discussions on the state of child abuse by clergy throughout the world and what can be done to protect children.
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At the International Court in Geneva
2014 action team to the International Court at the United Nations in Geneva spearheaded by Barbara Blaine.
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