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A 1st for Vatican: Report Sex Abuse to Police CBS 11 April 12, 2010 http://cbs11tv.com/national/vatican.abuse.police.2.1626564.html The Vatican has for the first time made it clear that bishops and other high-ranking clergy should report clerical sex abuse to police. The Vatican has insisted that this has long been the Catholic Church's policy. But in a new guide for lay readers posted Monday on its Web site, it made public for the first time an explicit policy of reporting abuse to law-enforcement. The guidelines read: "Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed." That phrase was not included in a draft of the guidelines obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The rest of the guidelines follow previously known and public procedures for handling canonical investigations and trials of suspected abuse. |
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