Roman Catholic Church paid thirty million Euro to Sex Abuse Victims

The Dutch Roman Catholic Church has paid almost thirty million Euro to sex abuse victims. Chairman Stevens of the complaint commission said that one can speak about structural abuse in the Church in view of the many perpetrators. All in all the commission received 3676 complaints. Of these about 1000 were found justified. There were at least 300 cases of severe abuse. The largest payments were 100 000 Euro.

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