These stories have always been very common place here and I really hope they do something to eradicate this abuse and to bring some measure of justice back to the families. Don’t you guys have the same sort of shit in Europe with the Catholic Church there?
Anyway, the most disgusting creature of all in all of this is that cunt George Pell. Heartless, deranged, sickening coward of a man. Running off to the Vatican and not wanting to face the music here. He knew of and protected (and most likely) participated in a lot of this abuse too. And this man is one of the most powerful Catholics in the world. Disgraceful.
the issue is there, but to this extent? i seriously doubt it. for instance, hungary is a christian country by its constitution, with a population of ~10m, of which ~70% are self-proclaimed catholic. there are like 2300 catholic priests in this country; with you, it's around 3000, so the two countries might be comparable in this regard. i couldn't remember many local cases that were published, so i did a quick online search and i couldn't find basically anything that would suggest that there are systematic abuses and consequent cover ups. i only found evidences of a couple of isolated cases from the last 20 years. i know a couple of catholic communities, and my experience with local priests are mostly positive (save for their political involvements), the ones i happen to know are genuinely nice people with plenty of secular/scientific knowledge (philosophy, literature, psychology). also, most of my friends and relatives are catholic, and i've never heard of any abuse stories locally, not even an accusation, which is supposed to happen easily in small communities. i have to add that hungary is a massively homophobic country, especially in rural environments, so any accusation would be blown out of proportion in no time (homophobes often confuse gays and pedophiles here).
child abuse might a bigger issue in foster care. in a recent case, the director of a locally well-known residential home abused several kids during the last decades. he was only recently fired and is currently investigated. i know a couple of guys who were abused by a former surveyor in the city i went to high school. the molester is dead for at least 20 years, but he wasn't brought to justice as the abused kids were too ashamed to report him.
anyway, i found those numbers in australia simply shocking. 8000+ testimonies of victims, that's immense.
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