POLAND
The News
23.06.2014
Nineteen Polish clergyman were convicted of sexually abusing children from 2010 to 2013, according to data presented at a Church conference in Krakow over the weekend.
The research was conducted by chairman of the Child Protection Centre Father Adam Zak, who contacted over 250 courts nationwide.
Child abuse cases were widely publicised in the Polish media over the last two years, and Father Zak stressed that “the ignorance” that had previously held sway was dangerous.
“The fact of this ignorance is disturbing because on the one hand it hides suffering and harm from our conscience, and on the other hand there is betrayal and a terrible infidelity,” he said.
Father Zak revealed that he intends to broaden his research to cover convictions since 1990.
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