ROME
GMA News (Philippines)
By NAOMI O’LEARY, Reuters
March 1, 2013
ROME – On the final day of Pope Benedict’s papacy, a victim support group asked the United Nations to censure the Vatican for failing to protect children from sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy.
Speaking at a press conference meters from the walls of the Vatican City on Thursday, the head of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said his group had made a formal submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
“It’s a long submission of 30 pages based on government reports by five different nations,” David Clohessy told reporters, surrounded by photographs of children he said were members of his organization, at the age they were abused.
“We hope that the UN speaks out very forcefully and says that the Vatican is in violation of the treaty that it agreed to honor.”
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