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  • Spanish clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children, probe estimates

    10/29/2023 12:21:45 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 39 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 10/27/23 | Diego Urdañeta
    Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published Friday. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent of Spain's adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children. The percentage rises to 1.13 percent -- or over 400,000 people -- when including abuse by lay members, Spain's national ombudsman Angel Gabilondo told a news conference called to...