UN report on Vatican is wake up call – Victims group

The President of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, an NGO, has said that the critical report by the United Nations experts on child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is “a wake up call”.
The group’s President, Barbara Blaine, made this known in Vatican City on Wednesday.
Blaine said: “Now it is up to secular officials to follow the UN’s lead and step in to safeguard the vulnerable because Catholic officials are either incapable or unwilling to do so.
“The quickest way to prevent child sexual violence by Catholic clergy is for Pope Francis to publicly remove all offenders from ministry and punish their colleagues and supervisors who enabled the crimes.
“But like his predecessors, he has refused to take even tiny steps in this direction.”
Blaine added that this imperative report would enable the civilian law enforcement authorities to go after paedophile priests.
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