One in 300 adults say they have been sexually abused, as a child or teenager, in public school. One in 250 declares to have been in Catholic education, which has always welcomed a much lower number of students (less than 20% of the numbers today). This is the terrible picture that the Sauvé report draws […]
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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: “In national education, responses to sexual abuse have not always been up to the task”
The cross : What do you think of the conclusions of the Sauvé report? Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: They have the effect of an explosion. The numbers are staggering. And the silence that has visibly surrounded the vast majority is deafening. The shock is all the more violent as the places in question (schools, churches) are supposed […]
Philippe Delorme: “In Catholic education, no desire to stifle business”
The cross : How do you view the conclusions of the Sauvé report? Philippe Delorme: With great sadness and compassion for the victims. Catholic teaching joins the words of Bishop de Moulins-Beaufort and all the bishops, with a feeling of shame and a request for forgiveness from all the victims and their families, whose trust […]
How do you tell children about sexual abuse in the Church?
Talking about sexual violence against children is always a task ” delicate ” for the parents. And this is perhaps not the first thing to do, according to Mélanie Dupont, psychologist at the medico-judicial unit of the Hôtel-Dieu, in Paris, and president of the association Center de victimologie des minors. ” It would be better […]
Sexual abuse in the Church, the terrible past of Catholic education
In the vast blackboard of pedophilia within the Church, Catholic education occupies a special place. Thus, the results of the call for testimonies launched by the Sauvé commission show that 30% of the abuses occurred within the framework of schools or boarding schools. → RELIVE the delivery of the Sauvé report and the reactions They […]