A sweeping, year-long study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century.
The report, commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Bishops, and led by two University of Zurich historians, offers a rare and deep look at sexual abuse and harassment that has confounded the Catholic Church across the globe in recent decades.
A sweeping, year-long study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century.
The report, commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Bishops, and led by two University of Zurich historians, offers a rare and deep look at sexual abuse and harassment that has confounded the Catholic Church across the globe in recent decades 바카라 upending the lives of many victims and their families, and tarnishing the image of the institution.
The authors said in a statement that they identified 1,002 바카라situations of sexual abuse,바카라 including accusations against 510 people. The abuse, they wrote, affected 921 people.
바카라The situations identified surely amount to only the tip of the iceberg,바카라 said the historians, Monika Dommann and Marietta Meier in a statement.
Among other findings, which were admittedly not exhaustive, over half 바카라 56 per cent 바카라 of the cases of sexual abuse involved men or boys. Some 39 per cent of victims were women or girls, while sourcing did not allow for the remaining 5 per cent to be identified by gender, according to the study.
The researchers poured over thousands of pages of secret documents, assembled by church authorities since the mid-20th century. But, they said, many sources of information haven바카라t been fully studied. They cited some cases where documents were destroyed to cover up any alleged wrongdoing.
With few exceptions, those accused of wrongdoing were all male. Nearly three-fourths of the documents examined showed the sexual abuse involved minors.