Deetman’s Second Report Condemns Catholic Church for Abusing Thousands of Girls

NETHERLANDS – According to a new report releasd today in the Netherlands focusing on female abuse victims, the Catholic church has been forced to acknowledge and compensate thousands of Dutch girls who were sexually and physically abused by criminal priests, monks, and nuns.

This is a second report released by the specialist committee led by Wim Deetman, which reviewed 150 cases whereby young girls were physically and sexually abused. The commission focused on cases between the period of 1945 to 2010. 

Interestingly, Vatican archives did not indicate physical abuse but it did paint a picture of a ‘climate based on formality and a lack of affection, of chilly emotions and toughness, repression and humiliation’, according to the report.


On Monday, the Catholic church offered its excuses to women who were abused by members of religious orders in their youth. The authorities said bishops would do their utmost to ensure the ‘recovery of trust, healing and reconciliation’ after years of systematic abuse.


However, Maud Kips, of the female church abuse survivors organization VPKK, told a Dutch newspaper, Trouw, on Monday that she felt this new report had been compiled too quickly. ‘Abuse within the [Catholic] church is considered a male thing. Women have felt ignored for a long time,’ she told the newspaper.

800 priests accused of pedophilia in the Netherlands


In the first report published by Deetman in December, he exposed how at least 800 Roman Catholic priests and monks abused children in their care between 1945 and 1985.


The commission was set up by the Catholic church back in March 2010 after the sexual abuse scandal broke in the Netherlands and hundreds of victims were brave enough to come forward. Over 2,000 people have spoke out and registered their abuse with local authorities.


The Dutch Parliament had asked Deetman’s committee to compile a second report focusing on girls.


Earlier stories 
Catholic church has paid out €3.1m to abuse victims so far
Report identifies 800 priests who abused children

Source Article from http://www.vaticancrimes.us/2013/03/deetmans-second-report-condemns.html

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