{"id":4896,"date":"2010-09-10T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T11:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/report-abuse-in-belgium-led-to-suicides.html"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T11:42:32","slug":"report-abuse-in-belgium-led-to-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/report-abuse-in-belgium-led-to-suicides.html","title":{"rendered":"Report: abuse in Belgium led to suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"

This news is heartbreaking — and horrifying: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nHundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, an independent Belgian commission said Friday.<\/p>\n

Professor Peter Adriaenssens, chairman of the commission, said the abuse in Belgium may have been even more rampant than the 200-page report suggests, because his panel’s work was interrupted and all its files seized in a June 24 raid by Belgian judicial authorities who are conducting their own probe.<\/p>\n

Adriaenssens, a child psychiatrist who has worked with trauma victims for 23 years, said nothing had prepared him for the stories of abuse that blighted the lives of victims. He called the report’s findings “a body blow” to the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium.
\nBelgian church authorities said they would react on Monday to the report. The Vatican had no immediate comment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the link. <\/a><\/p>\n

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