Tag: Child Abuse

Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint on Tuesday urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

Catholicism’s leading newspaper says the Vatican has never been attacked “so virulently” by an Irish Prime Minister before Enda Kenny’s scathing assault over child abuse.
Prime Minister Kenny was commenting on the Cloyne Report, which looks at how allegations against clerics of child abuse were handled in the Cloyne diocese in County Cork.
“The rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation,” Kenny said earlier this week.

A senior Catholic Church official has threatened controversy by saying that it would be safer not to “defrock” priests who had been convicted of sexually abusing children.

As a member of the British False Memory Society, I and others like me are portrayed as giving comfort to child sex abusers. Is it worth suing our accusers?

The growing scandal about child abuse reaches the top of the Vatican.

The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin, according to a scathing report released Thursday.

Raymond Jessop, 38, is set to stand trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group’s remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody case in American history.

Abuse victims across Northern Ireland are to launch a landmark legal case against several religious orders, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

Decades after suffering horrific abuse at the hands of nuns and priests in church-run industrial schools and orphanages a growing number of victims are now turning to the courts for retribution and closure. They are also planning legal action against the government bodies that were responsible for child welfare at the time, for failing to protect them.

A preacher at a mosque in Greater Manchester has been convicted of slapping three boys because they were laughing when they were supposed to be reading the Koran.

Religious man lets his daughter die, and thereby proves to himself that God doesn’t exist.  She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.

Don’t look away: it’s unbelievable that we still haven’t learnt the lessons from systematic child abuse in Ireland

A jury Friday found a central Wisconsin mother guilty of killing her 11-year-old daughter by praying for her to heal instead of rushing her to a doctor.

Just hours after an 11-year-old girl died of untreated diabetes, her mother told police she never considered taking her tired, pale and skinny daughter to a doctor for what she believed was a spiritual attack.

Fifty per cent of Britons won’t walk under one. Would you? Do you touch wood? Psychologist Bruce Hood believes even the most rational among us are more superstitious than we’d like to admit.

An atheist is trying to get himself “de-baptised” from the Church of England because he believes he was accepted into the religion without his consent.

Book Review:Losing My Religion
How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace
William Lobdell
Collins: 292 pp., $25.99